Voter's List

In answer to anonymous' comment about the city's voter's list there is no doubt the recent voter's list for the past election left much to be desired.

I will explain the voter's list and how it is made up. First of all the voter's list is a list of people who can vote ( eligible electors ) for the 2010 municipal election. As it was noted by anonymous The Municipal Property Corporation ( MPAC ) prepares a preliminary list of electors through their enumeration efforts and then revises the list with the voter's assistance. According to MPAC'S web site a preliminary list was made in 2010 which brings up the question, why were so many mistakes and missing voter names?The City of Welland used this preliminary list for the voter's list for the recent municipal election.

A considerable number of eligible voting Wellanders did not receive voter notification cards and mind you those that did were informed by the city the cards had errors and would be replaced with proper new cards at the taxpayers expense.

Again anonymous was correct in stating a fair number of Wellanders do not own their own homes such as retired seniors and renters who in many cases live in apartments which means their names more then likely will not appear on the list of eligible voters. It is logical to presume these names are not available to MPAC. For example as quoted by anonymous there are voters in a number of 4-plexes through out the city who do not have their names on the voter's list because the owners of the 4- plexes are the only names listed and live out of town.

Considering all of the above is it any wonder the voter turn out was so abysmal to say the least?

Is it not fair to ask when the city intends to have such glaring errors corrected as there is a provincial election coming up in 2011. Now is the time to act, not when it is too late in 2011.