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The integrity of the vote is all the rage right now.

Across the United States, a full week after the midterm elections, votes are being challenged, allegations of voter fraud made, ballots found, ballots recounted.

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Have the U.S. midterms been a fair election?

Canadians often sit and judge Americans smugly on issues like this, but should we?

Do you know how many non-citizens or dead people could have voted in the last election? Or how many did? What about adding in people that have abandoned Canada and allowing them to vote?

We shouldn’t be so smug.

Not only have we had problems with past elections, the new bill before Parliament to fix this will in some ways make things worse.

One of the political legends that gets passed around reporters on Parliament Hill is the story of dead people voting. Be it in full elections or leadership votes, there are plenty of tales of dead people voting.