Canada: masked voters [fill in your own joke]
The Ottawa Citizen reports: Elections Canada has informed the government there were 70 instances in the September federal byelections in Quebec of voters showing up at the polls wearing face masks, Government House leader Peter Van Loan disclosed yesterday.
The masked voters -- whose covers included at least one pumpkin -- were likely protesting Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand's decision that Elections Canada could not force Muslim women to take off religious veils to prove their identity, Mr. Van Loan said.
He made the disclosure after appearing at the Commons procedure and House affairs committee to defend a government bill amending the Canada Elections Act to require all voters to show their faces even if they have no photo ID. -- 70 masked voters cast ballots, Elections Canada reports