New voting rules face constitutional challenge
JONATHAN WOODWARD
Special to The Globe and Mail
June 26, 2007

VANCOUVER -- The only identification Clyde Wright uses when he marks a ballot is an oath.

Under Canada's current election laws, the word of the 44-year-old cocaine addict - who lives in a room in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and has no driver's licence or passport to his name - is proof enough.

But a new bill that could be signed into law this week will target voter fraud by restricting voters to those who can present ID with their current address or those who have a neighbour to vouch for them.

Mr. Wright says that law will target people like him instead.

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