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Yes, I was.
Actually, being the list might not matter in this case. It sounds like the DRO was correct, your drivers license alone wasn't enough. You may have had something else with your address, like insurance for a vehicle, that might have made the process quicker.
Often a spouse, friend or neighbour will vouch in a situation like this. If such a person is around.
This page explains it better than I can:
http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=ids&document=index&...
The real fraud was the ID requirements. In Saskatoon RTB, several thousand people would not have had the right ID. I am sure that helped HARPO.
Polling station misinformation calls were reported in BC too. It was reported on CBC radio throughout the day. Not sure about which riding.
CBC was part of the problem. When Canada @ 5 was broadcast in Saskatchewan, we were blithely informed that polling places were open to 8:30 "across the prairies." Apparently the assholes in Toronto don't understand that Saskatchewan doesn't do daylight savings time. Our polls closed at 7:30.
When these staggered voting hours were first brought in, the morons in Ottawa failed to grasp the DST issue. Thus the first election fought on these rules actually has SK polling places being the last open in the whole country.
I don’t think the ID rules are onerous, actually, but they need to be better publicized (—a list on the Voter Information Card) and the people interpreting them to be a) familiar with them and b) honest. I worked as a DRO Monday and there was only one person I wasn’t able to give a ballot, but given what we’ve seen of their flexible interpretation of right and wrong, I hate to think how many people might have been sent packing by DROs who were ethically disordered Con supporters.
Voter suppression during the last fed election, voter suppression in the Wisconsin recall vote, and in Manitoba we have a vote coming in the fall. Really, this requires more attention by independent, progressive media, especially after the Labour Day holiday, when the Manitoba election is sure to heat up. Will local labour unions who have already spent signficant money on advertising on summer TV (questionable priority) do anything to face this? At this point, Tories use of dirty tactics in the upcoming provincial 2011 election seems at almost certainty.
Four ridings that could go from blue to red over the robocall scandalhttp://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/four-ridings-could-blue-r...
Nipissing - Timiskaming
Mississauga East--Cooksville
Winnipeg South Centre
Willowdale