Electoral Insight - Election Legislation Enforcement

March 2003

• Chief Electoral Officer’s Message
  Jean-Pierre Kingsley
  
  
• Enforcement of the Canada Elections Act
  Raymond Landry
  An overview of compliance and enforcement mechanisms at the federal level in Canada
  
  
• Comparative Review of Penalties for Electoral Offences in Canada
  Marc Chénier and Alain Pelletier
  An analysis of various penalty schemes in Canadian jurisdictions
  
  
• Election Law Enforcement: International Comparisons
  Sue Nelson
  An examination of enforcement regimes in selected countries around the world
  
  
• Campaign Finance Enforcement in the United States
  Rhonda J. Vosdingh and Lawrence L. Calvert Jr.
  A report on the enforcement process administered by the Federal Election Commission
  
  
• Electronic Voting Methods: Experiments and Lessons
  Daniel Guérin and Asifa Akbar
  A review of recent developments in electronic registration and voting in several countries including Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States
  
  
• Ellen Louks Fairclough: Canada’s First Female Federal Cabinet Minister
  Wayne Brown
  Her five successive election victories were unmatched by any other woman during her time and she introduced historic legislation giving Status Indians the right to vote
  
  
• Electoral News in Brief