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Fifty-one voter registration certificates spread across three pollsin a Toronto riding are missing from last May's federal electionand Elections Canada has no record of them, a lawyer for the agencyconfirmed to CBC News Wednesday. Former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj lost the riding of EtobicokeCentre by just 26 votes to Conservative Ted Opitz and is contestingthe results before a judge in Ontario Superior Court. When a potential "new" voter arrives at a polling station, aregistration certificate is filled out by an election official andsigned by the voter. The certificate records the voter's name,address and date of birth, and the voter's signature is his or herdeclaration of Canadian citizenship and affirmation of residence inthat particular poll. Former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj is fighting the results oflast year's federal election in court over irregularities in hisEtobicoke Centre riding.
Wrzesnewskyj lost by 26 votes. (Adrien Veczan/Canadian Press) No explanation has been offered about why, a year later, the 51registration certificates are missing. All that's known about themis that 51 voters were noted as voting by registration certificatein the poll books, which are records of what happened in each poll,but their certificates don't seem to exist. One method of knowing whether the certificates existed at all is ifthe information on them was sent to Elections Canada's offices inOttawa shortly after the election. But Elections Canada neverreceived any data about the certificates, raising the questionabout whether the paperwork was ever done.
It's an important question because without the certificates,there's no way of knowing whether the voters formally declared thatthey are Canadian citizens and no indication that they showedidentification to prove they live in the poll where they voted. Emails outline polling confusion A series of emails from the returning officer for Etobicoke Centre,Allan Sperling, relate his efforts to find out about missing orimproper registration certificates. At poll 31 in Westmount Park Church, which also housed three otherpolls, 16 registration certificates are missing. Moreover, theregistration certificates that do exist for 70 more voters showthat each of those voters was already registered to vote in anotherpoll.
Although Elections Canada rules stipulate that a voter must vote inthe polling division where he or she lives, Sperling says in oneemail that the registration officer for poll 31 said people "wereallowed to vote at any table (poll) that was not busy. Since PD 31was the closest to the door, many people ended up there." Sperling wrote that the registration officer also told him why somevoters cast ballots at poll 31 although she knew they did not livethere. "Elderly voters who came to Westmount Park late on election day butwere registered to vote at another location were allowed to votethere by (registration certificate) because they told her that theydid not have the energy to go elsewhere and would just not vote.'We couldn't have that' she said, and so decided it was better tolet them vote at Westmount than not vote at all...," Sperlingwrote. Sperling also wrote that he tried to speak to the registrationofficer for poll 89, held at Wellesworth Public School, where tworegistration certificates are missing.
"I have called the home of(redacted)... (the second registration officer at Wellesworth)several times but to no avail .... There has been no answer formore than two weeks and I have left messages to no avail." Nothing has been said in court to indicate that Sperling ever didfind that registration officer. If Justice Thomas Lederer decides at least 26 ballots wereirregular and those irregularities affected the election result inthe riding, he can declare the May 2 results void, which couldultimately lead to a byelection or an appeal that would beimmediately heard by the Supreme Court of Canada. But in closing arguments Wednesday, Opitz's lawyer Tom Barlow,suggested that if the judge were to reject any ballots perhaps heshould adjust the votes according to an analysis of the polls inquestion.
Wrzesnewskyj won most of the 10 polls handily. Lederer reserved his decision. I am an expert from China Computer Suppliers, usually analyzes all kind of industries situation, such as lg vx9800 software , laminate floor reviews.
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