Elections Canada was asked to follow the spirit and intent of the government s strategic and operati

OTTAWA The Harper government is under fire for cutting Elections Canada s budget even as the agency struggles to address rampant procedural errors and widespread allegations of cheating during the last federal vote.
We re not coming to defence of our democratic institutions. The vote is the essential part and, if we can t even guarantee that the people who are voting are entitled to vote and that could throw off the results of the election, then all is being lost.
Elections Canada was asked to follow the spirit and intent convertible rental cars of the government s strategic and operational review, agency spokesperson Diane Benson said, referring to across-the-board spending reductions imposed by the government last year.
In any event, both the agency and the government pointed out that Elections Canada is entitled to draw unlimited amounts of additional money from general federal revenues for the administration of elections or for the conduct of investigations.
Controversy over the watchdog s budget was triggered by a report, commissioned by Elections Canada, which concluded that the integrity of Canada s electoral process is at serious risk due to rampant procedural errors made by polling officials.
The report, released Tuesday, blamed overly convertible rental cars complex rules and poorly trained polling officers for the fact that errors were made in the majority of the paperwork filled out during the 2011 federal election for electors who needed convertible rental cars to prove their eligibility to vote.
An audit of the paperwork found officials made systemic errors convertible rental cars in 165,000 cases 500 per riding, on average. The errors were serious, of the kind that have led courts to overturn election results in the past, the report said.
The reference to errors in the majority of the paperwork included minor clerical mistakes like forgetting to fill in the date, Benson said. More serious errors were found in only 15 per cent of the documentation.
In the Commons, Harper noted the report convertible rental cars made recommendations to deal with the quality control issues exposed by the audit. The government will consider those recommendations as it prepares to introduce legislation to reform the Canada Elections Act, he added.
The legislation is meant to deal primarily with ways to prevent convertible rental cars a repeat of the abuses that plagued the 2011 election, in which thousands of misleading, automated phone calls directed voters to the wrong polling stations.
Mulcair said the Conservatives have shown consistently that they re willing to cheat to win and cutting the budget of the agency that polices elections is in keeping with that. He cited the robocall affair and the so-called in-and-out scandal, which allowed the party to spend beyond its legal limit during the 2006 campaign.
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