Supreme Court And People In General Agree

On the blackout section of election law and the plaintiff makes a valid point that technology makes the law obsolete but then you have to question why the plaintiff doesn't make use of the technology rather waste the time of an overburdened justice system.

Do you think voters in the West should be able to learn election results from the East before they cast their ballots?
Yes 1649 votes (23 %)
No 5559 votes (77 %)

SCC upholds election result blackout rules
Updated Thu. Mar. 15 2007 2:35 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff

Canadian voters in the West must continue to remain in the dark about election results in the East on election nights, the Supreme Court has decided.

In a 5 to 4 decision, the country's highest court ruled that provisions of the Canada Elections Act must stand, forbidding the reporting of partial results in areas where the polls haven't closed.

"For the big broadcasters and big media in this country, we have been operating under this law for several years now. And we will have to continue to black out this type of information until the polls close in western Canada," CTV's Rosemary Thompson reported from the lobby of the Supreme Court on Thursday morning.

British Columbia software designer Paul Bryan launched a constitutional challenge of the provisions, arguing that the ban imposed in 1938 has become obsolete. He said that the Internet and other modern communications technology made enforcing the law impossible and impractical.

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