Fallout of Guelph Special Ballots

So while Guelph's special ballot has been unequivocally allowed, Elections Canada has announced today that there will be no more special ballot voting.  They have ordered all returning officers from setting up special ballot boxes on university campuses, specifically.

About Mr. Sona, the office of his candidate has unequivocally denied to comment.  For some students, the stonewalling is as good as guilt, and more witnesses are coming forward about what exactly took place on Wednesday.

• Kevin Bowman said Elections Canada officials at the voting station moved quickly to block the ballot box from Mr. Sona, took him aside, and a heated debate ensued. Voting soon resumed, and the sealed ballot boxes have been returned to Ms. Budra’s (The returning officer) office.

Meanwhile, the partisan jousting continued over the issue, Mr Harper has replied that their only concern was the respect of electoral rules, and not that they were trying to surpress voting at the university.

Mr. Ignatieff meanwhile has begun using the incident as a tinder for student voting where he can.

• “This is the kind of thing you’d expect, you know, maybe in Egypt or Syria or some country that doesn’t know democracy,” Mr. Ignatieff said.

What do we think?  Is Elections Canada correct in banning special ballots over one incident?  Some more extreme left views believe this might be what the conservatives were after all along, to remove a convenient way for youth in our country to vote.  Others think it's just an extreme bureaucratic reaction on the part of EC.

Weigh in Canada!



The Globe and Mail Article:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/elections-canada-puts-end-to-special-ballot-voting/article1987880/