The canadian government is about to vote a law making identification mandatory at all federal elections. In the last few federal elections it's been common to see a reporter going voting 8-10 times, taking the place of other voters.
As for the electronic voting, the worst place was the city of Québec itself, where it took at elast 2-3 hours and in some cases, 3 weeks (!), to get the official results out. The only company that didn't make machines that used scanned paper ballots (as in Québec City) was the one who lost the most in all this.
To our american neighbours: Why is it only one company, Diebold, seem to be making all the e-voting machines?
The CRTC is the reason:
-i pay 6,95$ "system access fees" EXTRA from my cell package. And they don't advertise that fee simply because CRTC doesn't ask them to.
-why we're stuck with CPAC (par"liar"ment channel) APTN (Aboriginal chan).
-That we have to choose à least 50% canadian content channels on cable packages.
-THAT THE SUPERBOWL IS STUCK WITH VERY BAD CANADIAN ADS.
-That XM and Sirius are taking soo long to get legally around (Announcements about this coming this week!)
-At least 50% canadian content on radio, in Quebec add this to 65% french speaking content, most radios suck around here and the smallest American signal is welcome. I'm even starting to like that rock station owned by Clear channel
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The canadian government is about to vote a law making identification mandatory at all federal elections. In the last few federal elections it's been common to see a reporter going voting 8-10 times, taking the place of other voters.
As for the electronic voting, the worst place was the city of Québec itself, where it took at elast 2-3 hours and in some cases, 3 weeks (!), to get the official results out. The only company that didn't make machines that used scanned paper ballots (as in Québec City) was the one who lost the most in all this.
To our american neighbours: Why is it only one company, Diebold, seem to be making all the e-voting machines?
The CRTC is the reason: -i pay 6,95$ "system access fees" EXTRA from my cell package. And they don't advertise that fee simply because CRTC doesn't ask them to. -why we're stuck with CPAC (par"liar"ment channel) APTN (Aboriginal chan). -That we have to choose à least 50% canadian content channels on cable packages. -THAT THE SUPERBOWL IS STUCK WITH VERY BAD CANADIAN ADS. -That XM and Sirius are taking soo long to get legally around (Announcements about this coming this week!) -At least 50% canadian content on radio, in Quebec add this to 65% french speaking content, most radios suck around here and the smallest American signal is welcome. I'm even starting to like that rock station owned by Clear channel