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chris lindberg · 10-15-2008, 08:23 AM

I finally voted this year, also got another 6 family members to vote who otherwise wouldn't have, even paid the cab fair to do it.

I know less than 25% Native Canadian Indians vote, this year, they also made it harder to vote, now they require both photo ID along with proof of your address on it too!

I've heard most Natives don't even have a photo ID and their only address is their First Nation Community in a lot of cases, so that's about 1 million lost votes right there. (assuming they wanted to vote)

So, we show up at the polling station and we find out we need photo ID and proof address which my son & daughter didn't have on them but their mother and I were allowed to vouche for them and it's a good thing my other son who is of voting age wasn't there because we were only allowed to vouche for one child each, what kind of rule is this, I don't get it?

This new photo ID and proof of address requirement wasn't even on the cards they mailed out, makes me wonder how many people were turned away because of this?

I wonder if there will ever be an election that comes right to your door, I'm sure we'd get more than a 58% turnout if that ever happened?

10-15-2008, 08:23 AM	#43
chris lindberg Franchise Player Join Date: Jan 2004 Exp:	I finally voted this year, also got another 6 family members to vote who otherwise wouldn't have, even paid the cab fair to do it. I know less than 25% Native Canadian Indians vote, this year, they also made it harder to vote, now they require both photo ID along with proof of your address on it too! I've heard most Natives don't even have a photo ID and their only address is their First Nation Community in a lot of cases, so that's about 1 million lost votes right there. (assuming they wanted to vote) So, we show up at the polling station and we find out we need photo ID and proof address which my son & daughter didn't have on them but their mother and I were allowed to vouche for them and it's a good thing my other son who is of voting age wasn't there because we were only allowed to vouche for one child each, what kind of rule is this, I don't get it? This new photo ID and proof of address requirement wasn't even on the cards they mailed out, makes me wonder how many people were turned away because of this? I wonder if there will ever be an election that comes right to your door, I'm sure we'd get more than a 58% turnout if that ever happened? Last edited by chris lindberg; 10-15-2008 at 08:26 AM.