Canada: Voter says he got pre-marked ballot for Conservatives at at early voting site
A Peterborough, Ont. student says he was given a pre-marked ballot when he went to vote at the advance polls on Thanksgiving Monday, but Elections Canada says they have no record of it.
Jeff Campbell, a 23-year-old political science student at Trent University, says he voted at the Lions Community Centre in his Peterborough—Kawartha riding and watched the polling officials rip a ballot out of their book, initial it and give it to him.
When he got to the voting booth, he says he looked down at it and noticed an X marked beside the name of the Conservative candidate for the area.
"This was a very clearly marked X in the ballot. Not... streaks or a smudge or anything like that. It was very obviously intended to mark a vote," he told CBC News on Saturday.
"My first thought was maybe they just handed me somebody else's ballot that had just come through, but it wasn't. They looked it up, it was matched up in the book with what they meant to give me so it must have been something else."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-pre-marked-ballot-peterborough-1.3277136
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