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| At 07:34 11/20/05, you wrote:
| Dear Mr. Buday
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| When I went to vote yesterday, at Voting Station 14, I was told that I was not allowed to vote because I do not have my driver's licence. I researched | this prior to attending the vote. The website stated that I needed to bring 2 pieces of ID with me. Any two pieces. And that is what I brought with me.
| I came home, and I immediately called the elections office, and told that I was erroniously given this information, and that after submitting a Declaration | of Residancy, I could in fact vote. So I went back, and spoke with the elections officer at this station, and filled one out.
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| After filling out the declaration, and while registering myself, I noticed a man trying to register, who was turned away. His gentleman had 2 pieces of ID | - his birth certificate and SIN card, as well as the stub from his last welfare cheque - which by the way, had his current address on it. And he was STILL | turned away because he did not have a driver's licence.
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| I mentioned the Delaration of Residency to him, in front of the officials at the station, and they STILL told him that he could not vote.
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| I am disgusted with this city. I am a new resident of Vancouver, having been here for 7 weeks. Vancouver is a physically beautiful place, with some of | the ugliest personalities I have seen in my life.
| Where does that elections officer get off by telling that man he could not vote? Who gave her the right to overlook Canadian law, and refuse that man his | rights. To ignor his voice and vision. Is that not illegal?
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| When I left, the second time, I called the elections office, and told them what I had experienced, and they looked in to it, and even called me back to | tell me what transpired after they looked in to it. But I went to vote late in the day, with 45 minutes left before 20:00. How many other non-drivers, or | people who are a little down on their luck did they turn away at that station alone, never mind the rest of them.
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| I do not feel that the results are a clear, fair, and democratic survey of this city. How could it be, if only driving wealthy people were allowed to | voice themselves?
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| I will not allow this to fall upon deaf ears. This needs to be looked at.
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| Sincerely,
| Craig Campbell
Thanks I am trying to see that as many hear this myself as you can see, I'll pass it on to Usenet and some other locations online I know of.
I am glad you brought this to my attention as a former resident of Vancouver who couldn't afford a car he'd be caught dead in and now a fiscally
poorer man in East Vancouver I too could have fallen prey to this scandal worthy of a decirtified election. Many times, I myself forgot my BC ID and
had brought the card I got in the mail and on that flimsy amount of, well I was a Candidate so they might have known me, but then again on coverage
alone that could have been untrue, so who knows they could have pulled the same stunt even saying that my BC ID wasn't enough.
"....and maybe you'd like to see my vaccine records toooooo...." -- Kaput (of Kaput and Zösky, copyright to the creator there-in)
I do not care for this, I have mother who doesn't drive as well she could suffered from this as well, who knows how many votes any candidate could
have totalled from every individual on this issue; yet again I see another disenfranchised voter and now it's from the election officials, instead of the press' marketing decisions.
I don't know what to say the definition of democrasy is laced with the important element of a system that pertains of no class system. Each voters vote
is supposed to count as one vote, no tyranny of one voter or the masses votes (at least the presumed votes in the polls).
I myslef feel this as a candidate religated into a class, my vote for myself and the voters for myself and other Candidates not of the top 2 or 3 (Sullivan, Green, and somewhat Green, the consolation candidate) with the way the coverage and debates went.
I do not know what to say, but it's a shame and maybe you'll get press thinking your a comedian. I hope you can get some sort of justice out of this,
I myself would be able to be silent about any of this myself.
I'd like to see more corrage from individual's like yourself for comming forward.