There are about 1 million Canadians who use a post office box as their primary

mailing address. I happen to be one of them. Under the changes to the Elections Act passed last summer I have to either show up at the poll with photo ID or two pieces of identification, one of which shows my civic address. A post office box is not acceptable.

Now that would seem pretty easily resolved, use your drivers license, except licenses can show a post office box as your address. Now the license isn’t acceptable.  While Elections Canada estimates that only about 150,000 Ontarians are impacted by this change in the law, in some areas of the country like the far north as many as 80% could be refused their right to vote.
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