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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
The issue here is that lower income people are more likely to not have a drivers license or passport.
Lower income people are more likely to vote Liberal or NDP and less likely to vote Conservative.
So if I can't vouch for you, and you don't have the proper ID, then you can't vote.
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My understanding is that there are 39 acceptable forms of ID. Including student cards, utility bills or a letter from a soup kitchen.
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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
Frankly I think it has more to do with being a progressive, open and inclusive democracy than it does swaying an election.
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I was responding to Tinordi who was saying they are trying to steal an election.
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Originally Posted by Slava
This strikes me as a sort of omnibus bill though. A couple good things mixed in with a bunch of garbage. So whole some is common sense and should be voted for, there are other just plain ridiculous points that should be voted against. I hate that kind of politics.
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I don't support everything in the bill either so once again we find ourselves agreeing on something.
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Originally Posted by Zulu29
More worrisome is the possible disenfranchisement of 500,000 Canadians.
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500,000?