Americans please take note. There is an emerging continental trend towards the social engineering of the democratic franchise, and it may well be coming to a polling station near you.
Tower Road used to run from the gates of Point Pleasant Park at the southern tip of Halifax to the gates of the Public Gardens at the heart of the city. It was named for the Martello Tower at Point Pleasant, pictured above.
A few years ago the extension to a hospital parking lot cut this road in two, and the north section, just down from the medical school campus of Dalhousie University, was recently rebranded "Martello Road," with startling and unforseen consequences. This story [1] suggests that record voter apathy ruled in yesterday’s Canadian federal election. It was no such thing — rather frustration and outrage.
Halifax Citadel MLA Leonard Preyra knows of at least one constituent who says he’ll never vote again after being turned away from the polls Tuesday.
The man, who declined to be interviewed, lives on Martello Road, which used to known as Tower Road.
Because the man could not produce a piece of identification with the new road name on it, he was not allowed to vote, even though everyone at that polling station would have been aware of the street’s name change and likely were residents of the street themselves, Mr. Preyra said.
This is a transparently obvious strategy to selectively spike voters whose circumstances are even a bit irregular and is fundamentally and intolerably undemocratic. Thousands of Canadian college students were turned away yesterday, which was certainly a main goal of the plan, but many of the plan’s core supporters were comically swept up in the net. As reported by CBC Radio, a voter in Newfoundland who brought his PASSPORT to the polling station was only saved because his father brought his FISHING LICENCE and could vouch for his son.
That hurricane damage pictured above precisely symbolizes yesterday’s trashing of our democratic rights. After five years the Park is recovering around the Tower, but yesterday’s damage to our country’s 250 year old institution will not be restored without the dedicated work of ordinary Canadians. That rebuilding starts today.
Please be warned, America.
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Notes and References
[1]: "New low for voter turnout: Only 60.7 per cent of eligible Nova Scotians cast a ballot", by Amy Smith and Davene Jeffrey, Halifax Chronicle-Herald, October 16, 2008. Hat tip to Mrs. M, who found this item (really the last straw) while we were enjoying coffee and some really nice carob / chocolate treats from Satisfaction Feast.
Update: forgot to credit the WikiPedia article on Point Pleasant Park for the image above.
I’d forgotten something about that hospital whose parking lot expansion started this mess. Just after the hurricane hit I spent some time sitting in the place and wrote the following poem. It’s posted at The Telegraph’s unstable MyT platform (link in the title), but I’m going to reproduce the whole thing here. Anyone who sees Ms May in the next while might want to pass this along. Seven percent and no seats is another outrage, but at least that should be readily fixable 
The Rapture
Africa’s gone
The top of the Andes still stretches almost to life though
And it won’t be hard to choose
The hundred and forty four thousand after all
There’s less than a million of us leftGroups leave from the far north
The far south
Trekking to where Quito was
To the Elevator
Traveling in space suits
Because the Middle is already an alien placeMeanwhile Science has advanced so far
We know our world will be a better planet
For those billions of tons of buried carbon we burned
Just not for usThat Ark up there is but a lottery ticket
In our heart we know
Our real children will be born right here
In fifty million years (or so)Halifax, October 24, 2003, QE II hospital
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just wait and see. the election in a few weeks will resemble the 2000 FL fiasco. hundreds of thousands of registered voters have already been struck from lists all over the country. Our system is screwed up and has got to the point where a major strategy (from BOTH sides)is to disallow as many voters as they can. The only nice thing about this election is that it will be a landslide so it wont really matter.
lol….igor says “nomoney.” must have known it was me posting.
This is REALLY overblown, overdone hysteria. I worked the Canadfian Federal Election this week as a scrutineer and I saw with my own eyes the many, many different forms of identification that can be used.
The most used, and the easiest of course is a valid driver’s license, but there are a ton of other ones that can be used including Social Insurance Card, OAS Card, Hunting License, Firearms License, any other kind of Government license or document, utility bills, credit card statements, etc.
If none of those is available to one, then being sponsored by someone who knows you will always work. It sure doesn’t take a whole lot of effort to vote if one really wants to vote.
This is just a bunch of wild-a**ed shrieking by someone who’s nose is out of joint for who-knows-what reason.
SHEESH!!!
Greycap -
Heh, I never said they were trying to stop the CSSA! … see you again in about 10 months
This sounds a little too weird for me. The guy must have been a post. This whole voter disenfranchment thing is just so phony. Some people want to steal elections so bad they’ll do anything. If someone gets disenfranchised you only need look who’s out there illegally registering non existent voters. Happened in 2000, 2004 and now. Pleeez. Stop it.
freemonster -
Elections Canada has never reported an instance of voter fraud. The bone of contention here is “Bill C-31: Integrity of the Electoral Process”, a devious bit of social engineering that systematically disenfranchises citizens whose circumstances are a bit irregular, moved, students, don’t drive — or hunt –, live in apartments as opposed to houses. In short, Canadians less likely demographically to vote CRAP.
“Worried,” says Igor, and so do I.
IMO – College students haven’t a brain to share amongst them. All hormones and no cognitive ability. Let them go out in the real world for a while to wipe out all of the nonsense stuffed in their heads. Then they can vote.
Greycap:
So what if, as John states, you live on a road that has recently been renamed, and thus only have ID for the old name? Is it right for your vote to be denied? One vote, who cares, right? That sure doesn’t sure like democracy to me. Ask any MP that is having their votes recounted as we speak (U.Dosanjh for example) – EVERY vote counts. Especially when the people at the polling station know that what the road USED to be called, it is utter nonsense to deny somebody to vote under those circumstance.
BTW there were despicable shenanigans that played out on the West Coast, that I am surprised is not news across Canada. In a Vancouver Island riding, the NDP candidate bowed out of the race several weeks ago, but too late to have his name withdrawn from the voter cards.
The NDPs’ absence from the riding left the Liberal candidate a very good chance of winning the riding over the incumbent conservative Gary Lunn (Minister of Natural Resources). So, what happened?
Several days before the election, there were news reports that people in the riding were being called by others who were POSING as NDP volunteers, asking them to vote for the NDP candidate!!! Not only that, but the caller-id FRAUDULENTLY was displaying itself as a call from NDP party HQ!!! (The real NDP officials confirm it was not them doing the calling.)
Now, you’d think this would be illegal, fraudulently masking your phone number to look like your political opponent’s and all, wouldn’t you? NO, said the local police! It would only be illegal if the caller was fraudulently obtaining money or goods.
EXCUSE ME, but if I had a choice between having money stolen from me or having my democratic right to an informed democratic vote stolen from me, it goes without saying you can have my money.
So… what is the result? A couple thousand people ended up voting for the NDP, that’s what! And the convervative WON! BUT, if you add up the Liberal and NDP votes (the latter which would surely have all been Liberal if not for the fraud), Gary Lunn would be OUT. That is what SHOULD have happened.
Despicable! So much for justice, hm? Maybe I should pick up one of those devices that lets me mask my phone number to anything I want, and have at it now… since it’s not illegal. I wonder how the police would feel if a bunch of people did that, pretending to be them?
One other thing – since the police have said that nothing illegal was done by the phone fraud, what is to stop NDP and Liberal supporters from buying phone-masking devices during the next election, and pretending to be calling from Gary Lunn’s office? All they would have to do is be incredibly rude/annoying, and hang up the phone on people… And they will piss people off enough to not vote for him.
Of course, I don’t condone anybody using one of those devices to pretend to be anyone, but if it isn’t technically illegal, what is to stop everyone?
I rest my case.
“Justices Rule Against Ohio G.O.P. in Voting Case”, by Adam Liptak and Ian Urbina, New York Times, October 17, 2008.
I strongly recommend http://www.bradblog.com/ for voting-related issues news and discussion, most often stuff the MSM won’t touch or be very late to touch.
In recent years, the most shocking story to be unveiled at this site -that the MSM has not touched- is one involving Clint Curtis, a Florida-based programmer who was asked to write “vote-rigging” software for Florida Governor Tom Foley!! After Mr.Curtis blows the whistle on it, he is fired, gets veiled threats, and a government official investigating his allegations is found dead (said to be suicide, but out of nowhere grisly photos of the crime scene are found). Oh, and to top it off, the company that Mr. Curtis worked for when he was asked to write that software employs a Chinese national that has been caught in the past selling NASA secrets to the Chinese.
You’d think all of this is fiction, but it is not.
Read the synopsis for yourself:
http://www.bradblog.com/?page_id=3980
Mike C, Florida govenor TOM FOLEY? every 4 years!
Thanks for the correction, freemonster.
The story was about Florida representative Tom Feeney not “Foley”.
I was confusing the name “Feeney” with “Foley”.
Mark FOLEY, is the Republican representative who recently got resigned after admitting he was sending sexually explicit e-mails to his underage representatives.
http://uspolitics.about.com/b/2006/09/30/foley-resigns-amid-scandal-with-male-minors.htm
Wow, that almost beats being implicated in a man’s murder, but not quite.
There’s the “PARTY OF FAMILY VALUES” for you!! Every four years, INDEED!
MikeC:
- as for people who haven’t dealt properly with address changes:
Heh – Life is tough. It’s even tougher if you’re stupid!
Why the Libranols would be trying to get sheeple to vote for the Dippers is beyond me. Maybe they used some of the Adscam money they stole from the country’s coffers to buy their phone masking equipment.
We both know that the CPC would never do a thing like that!