Elections Worker Fined $1,250 for Voting Twice in 2019 Federal Election

The Commissioner of Canada Elections has handed down multiple fines for electoral violations, including to a Montreal man who voted twice in 2019. The body that enforces the Canada Elections Act said that David Gilchrist voted twice in two different electoral districts in Montreal. He was fined $1,250. Gilchrist first voted by special ballot in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce–Westmount riding on Sept. 23, 2019, and then at the polling station of the Saint-Laurent riding for early voting on Oct. 11, 2019. He was accompanying his father at that time and used his...