Little action yet on NWT voters’ lack of photo ID, 2 years after report – CBC
Sep 16, 2015
Former chief electoral officer’s 2013 report recommended changes
Not much has been done to get more people in the Northwest Territories official photo identification, despite recommendations from the territory’s chief electoral officer two years ago.
In 2013, then-electoral officer David Brock filed a report called ‘Issues Arising from the 2011 General Election.’ In it, he said the territorial government needed to take steps to ensure more people were getting photo ID, which includes driver’s licences, general identification cards, passports and territorial government employee ID cards.
His concern was that recent changes to voter ID requirements may become barriers to voting for those without such identification.
