Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Kam Lake, the Bill 26, An Act to Amend the Elections and Plebiscites Act, be read for the second time.
Mr. Speaker, Bill 26 amends the Elections and Plebiscites Act to:
require the Minister of Justice to provide the Chief Electoral Officer with names and addresses of inmates who are eligible to vote;
authorize a returning officer to strike the name of a person no longer resident in a polling division from a preliminary list of electors, require the posting of names that may be struck and provide for review and appeal processes;
provide more time for a person to apply for an absentee ballot and specify when an absentee ballot may be provided to an applicant;
provide for voting at mobile polls;
revise criteria so that a person living in the same electoral district as an elector who lacks sufficient identification may vouch for the elector;
add candidate nomination papers to the list of public records that may be inspected;
create an offence of threatening a candidate or potential candidate and an offence of impersonating an election officer;
make amendments of a minor procedural nature and that improve clarity; and
make a consequential amendment to the Health Information Act.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. The motion is in order. To the principle of the bill.
Question.
Question has been called. Bill 26 has had second reading.
---Carried
Mr. Bouchard.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to waive Rule 69 (2) and have Bill 26, An Act to Amend the Elections and Plebiscites Act, moved into Committee of the Whole.
---Unanimous consent granted
Mr. Ramsay.
