[Newsbot]

Title: What you talkin' about, Iggy?
Category: Political
Posted By: Alta_redneck
Date: 2011-04-11 05:31:56
Canadian

[martin14]

oooooops

I guess Iggy forgot about that one.

[OnTheIce]

We turn from accused criminals at rallys to Ignatieff admitting that he's going to vote illegally.....but then doesn't.

[ShepherdsDog]

So...it takes a shitload of red tape for a Canadian to get UK citizenship(and vice versa) nowadays, but if we are just a resident we can vote there?? Seems a little unbalanced.

[Regina]

They don't check citizenship in Canada for voting either. Once in a blue moon they come to your door and ask how many Canadian Citizens live in the house and what are their names. I tossed my wife under the bus years ago, but somehow she got back on the voting list.

.......and yes it takes a very long time for someone from the UK who's lived here for 40+ years to get a Canadian passport. So far it's 13+ months, with no sign of one coming soon. Total farce.

[PostFactum]

A simple period before elections, they are starting to remember all crap.

[andyt]

He had the right to vote in Britain and he did. Good for him. But he should not now be bullshitting that he didn't. Nothing to be ashamed of.

[ccga3359]

Big deal, so he legally voted when living abroad. For which party he voted is none of my business just like how I vote in none of his.

[BartSimpson]

Iggy should run for President of the USA since citizenship isn't much of a bar for us anymore.

[N_Fiddledog]

ccga3359 ccga3359:

Big deal, so he legally voted when living abroad. For which party he voted is none of my business just like how I vote in none of his.

It may be legal in the UK, but it's illegal in the US, but whether he did, or not would be almost impossible to prove.

$1:

A conviction for illegal voting in Massachusetts carries a penalty of up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. For each time that he voted.

But proving if he did or did not vote may be an impossibility . The only conclusive proof would be the hard copy poll books that are used to check in voters on election day – if he signed in, he voted. But, the Cambridge Election Commission says that they no longer have the hard copy material from 2004. And while their electronic database includes voter history, they admit that a voter who has been purged from the rolls may not show up anywhere in the file. Assuming Ignatieff didn’t vote in Cambridge after being elected to Parliament in 2006, he would have been purged.

http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfide ... elections/

[Freakinoldguy]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Assuming Ignatieff didn’t vote in Cambridge after being elected to Parliament in 2006, he would have been purged.

Iggy, vote and purged, three words that sound like they came directly off the front page of Pravda back in the early 50's.

[Gunnair]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Iggy should run for President of the USA since citizenship isn't much of a bar for us anymore.

[GreenTiger]

Well at least nobody is arguingthat Iggy was born in Canada.

[Freakinoldguy]

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

Well at least nobody is arguingthat Iggy was born in Canada.

I thought Donald Trump had proof he wasn't.







Oh wait that's Obama he's got the goods on.

[DanSC]

I still don't know why Obama's mother, an American citizen, would travel all the way to Kenya just to give birth. Especially considering that Barack Obama Sr. had a wife and kid in Kenya he was trying to keep secret.