Did Canadian candidate for prime minister vote in U.S. election?

But proving if he did or did not vote may be an impossibility . The only conclusive proof would be the hard copy poll books that are used to check in voters on election day – if he signed in, he voted. But, the Cambridge Election Commission says that they no longer have the hard copy material from 2004. And while their electronic database includes voter history, they admit that a voter who has been purged from the rolls may not show up anywhere in the file. Assuming Ignatieff didn’t vote in Cambridge after being elected to Parliament in 2006, he would have been purged.

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So all we have is Ignatieff’s word that he voted in a U.S. election. And he may or may not be a citizen.

When asked for comment, Ignatieff’s spokesman basically thumbed his nose at U.S. election law…

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