The federal government said Tuesday it will fix a problem with the newly revamped Elections Act that prevents up to a million rural voters from casting a ballot.
Four months ago, Parliament passed amendments to the Canada Elections Act that requires each voter produce proof of identity and a residential address before being allowed to cast a ballot.
However, more than one million Canadians living in rural areas don't have an address that includes a street name and number.
Rural addresses are often just post office boxes. On native reserves, a resident's address is sometimes simply the name of the reserve.
In Nunavut, more than 80 per cent of registered voters don't have a residential address.
This is so stupid as to make one wonder wtf these people were doing instead of reading the bill that they were voting on.
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