Who knew a great faceless national bureaucracy could know so well what's really going on?
Dana Doiron, who speaks for Elections Canada, said the rule, designed to protect privacy, has been in existence for a long time. However, it was only enforced in the Maritimes for the first time on Monday. "There are many polls in rural Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and New Brunswick where the number of people in the polls isn't very high. And if people have access to those numbers, they have a greater idea of how their neighbours have voted."Having endured the public embarrassment known as "poll captains" in PEI when exercising my right it is good to see someone - a bureaucracy no less - actually taking a stand against misuse of the core democractic moment.
