Canada should use biometrics to verify identity of voters

680 News in Toronto is reporting that a former member of a Conservative Party of Canada riding association admits he requested a ballot at a voting station after already voting in a different riding.

You would think that at some point, we could have fingerprint readers at voting stations, and no one would have to show ID or voter card or anything. You'd just have to show ID once in order to register for vote, and they would take your fingerprint. Then any time after that, you would just register to vote by showing up to a voter registration office and tapping your finger on to a reader. Any time a person tries to vote twice, or identify themselves as somebody else, it could generate an alert to polling staff, before the person gets the ballot. How much would that cost? Fingerprint readers are being advertised for $15 to $30, so let' say the government could buy in bulk for $20 or less each, for 60,000 polling stations in Canada, that's about $1.2 million for hardware that could be used nationwide in every election.