- National Post editorial board: The vote needs protection, not weakening
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Voters should be required to produce government-issued photographic identification
The federal government has quietly dropped plans to ban veiled voting in national elections. Part of their motivation is practical: A ban would be unlikely to pass the House of Commons. Since coming out in favour of such a ban two years ago, all three opposition parties have recanted under pressure from politically correct special interests.
But the government’s second reason for abandoning its voter ID act is harder to understand. Steven Fletcher, the minister of state for democratic reform, says that the government will instead be working on “increasing voter participation” through such measures as adding two advanced polling days before each election.
Giving Canadians more choices over when and where to cast their vote is a good thing, but we don’t see how it and measures to ensure the legitimacy of our national elections are mutually exclusive. If anything, “vote security” — the need to establish that each voter is who he or she claims to be and has a right to cast a ballot — is more crucial when voting opportunities are expanded and the risk of fraud is multiplied.
We definately need legislation to make it clear that veiled women reveal their faces to vote...The federal government has quietly dropped the idea of forcing veiled women to show their faces if they want to vote in Canadian elections.The loss of interest comes just as the issue of face coverings is heating up overseas, with President Nicolas Sarkozy declaring that the Islamic burka is "not welcom
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