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Arranging for homeless people to sign over their voting rights to a surrogate would be extremely illegal in most parts of Canada.

But it may still be kosher in the Yukon, depending on what the RCMP conclude in the case of Tamara Goeppel, a Liberal candidate whose campaign paired 10 homeless people with volunteers who would vote in their place.

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“I am defending their human right to vote,” she told the National Post by phone from her riding of Whitehorse Centre.

The Yukon, which elects a new territorial legislature on Monday, is one of the last jurisdictions in Canada that allows “proxy voting.”

Legal only in the Yukon and Nunavut, the practice is designed to allow isolated and absent residents to simply assign someone to vote in their place.

”People can either appoint a friend or relative or whoever … or they can designate a political party or a candidate to find someone,” said David Wilkie, the territory’s assistant chief electoral officer.