Elections Canada set to eliminate 100,000 non-citizens from voters registry cdnpoli
Chief Electoral Officer Stephane Perrault told the Senate National Finance Committee on Tuesday that his office has identified these names on the registered list of qualified electors and will be removing them before the 2019 federal election.
While unlikely, it remains to be seen whether these potentially fraudulent votes would have affected the election result. Elections Canada is still looking into the matter to determine this, and try to establish how these names ended up on the register in the first place. The ineligible names on the voters register were determined because of new powers granted to Elections Canada under the federal Liberals’ Bill C-76, the Elections Modernization Act. This billto Canada's elections laws, including new limits on spending and foreign participation, while also aiming to boost accessibility and participation in democracy.
To put this number in context, Elections Canada said there are 27.1 million eligible electors on the national register as of 2018, and more than 17 million Canadians cast a ballot in 2015. According to Elections Canada, during the 2015 campaignbecause they did not have the proper proof of identity or address. Of these, around 50,000 actually went to their polling place and were turned away.
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