Sounds like this is more like a vote in Congress, where the whips know how many are going to vote which way and twist arms enough to get the result.
But Canada does have a big problem with elections and that is until covid-era they had real elections, with hand-counted paper in-person votes. Now they have unverifiable elections with lots of mail-in.
Canada hasn't built up the secret checks and balances of competing riggers like America has (election fraud for at least 60 years), so they're likely to just go completely off the rails.
We've had mail-in ballots for a long time. BUT! The scrutiny to get one is just the same as an in-person vote. Wide-scale mail-in fraud would be very costly both in time and money. Even then? You'd have to do it in specific ridings where it might make a difference: there's no large-scale ballots for Prime Minister or Governor, for example.
So until lately, Canada's elections have been pretty solid. This upcoming one could be like the USA 2020: rigged from the start.
Hmm mail in is not as large as I thought... from 1.5% (2019) to 4.0% (2021).
I must have read that they were prepared for 5 million ballots... but they only got 500k.
You have to send in a photocopy of your ID so it would be hard to add fake voters, but there doesn't seem to be much protection from your vote being changed - probably because historically it hasn't been enough to be a concern.
Sounds like this is more like a vote in Congress, where the whips know how many are going to vote which way and twist arms enough to get the result.
But Canada does have a big problem with elections and that is until covid-era they had real elections, with hand-counted paper in-person votes. Now they have unverifiable elections with lots of mail-in.
Canada hasn't built up the secret checks and balances of competing riggers like America has (election fraud for at least 60 years), so they're likely to just go completely off the rails.
We've had mail-in ballots for a long time. BUT! The scrutiny to get one is just the same as an in-person vote. Wide-scale mail-in fraud would be very costly both in time and money. Even then? You'd have to do it in specific ridings where it might make a difference: there's no large-scale ballots for Prime Minister or Governor, for example.
So until lately, Canada's elections have been pretty solid. This upcoming one could be like the USA 2020: rigged from the start.
Hmm mail in is not as large as I thought... from 1.5% (2019) to 4.0% (2021).
I must have read that they were prepared for 5 million ballots... but they only got 500k.
You have to send in a photocopy of your ID so it would be hard to add fake voters, but there doesn't seem to be much protection from your vote being changed - probably because historically it hasn't been enough to be a concern.