Monday, May 02, 2011

Stupid Outdated Elections Canada Law

If you look at the Section 329 of the Canada Elections Act you'll see what it says:

"No person shall transmit the result or purported result of the vote in an electoral district to the public in another electoral district before the close of all of the polling stations in that other electoral district."

What a load of crock....as this succinct article in the Times-Colonist nicely summarizes, this law is outdated and unenforceable. With the internet media we have nowadays, why is this law still being enforced? What is the government of Canada worried about? It's citizens on the West Coast acquiring the information that others have? Are we living still in an age, where the ease of information acquisition needs to be regulated in this manner?

This is really outdated, and I'm not sure why the government hasn't changed this law, and insists on fining well-intentioned people who are just innocently conveying information to their fellow citizens.

It's time to change this moronic, and hopelessly outdated law.

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