The deep-background reason being offered for the rule change is to prevent personation.
The strictest electoral laws in Europe were introduced on the back of false allegations of mass personation.
Voters are advised to bring some form of identification as checks are expected to be increased five-fold to prevent personation.
Research will have to be carried out on it and we may have to have stricter criteria to wipe out personation at polling booths.
The offence of personation will be amended to make it clear that it is a crime to use another person's identity to evade arrest or prosecution.
The legislation also proposes a few clarifications to the personation offence.
The crime of personation, for instance, directly targets the fraudulent impersonation of someone under certain circumstances.
Are you satisfied with the 10-year maximum sentence for what has been called personation and will now be called identity fraud?
Certain branches of the bank in question had been experiencing a rash of personation fraud.
Section 403 of the Criminal Code contains provisions dealing with fraudulent personation with the intent of gaining an advantage, causing a disadvantage or obtaining property or an interest in any property.
The misuse of another person's identity information, generally referred to as identity fraud, is covered by current offences in the Criminal Code, such as personation and forgery.
As it stands now, it is an offence in the Criminal Code, when an individual uses someone else's identity to commit a crime, such as identity fraud, personation and forgery.
Four voters have taken legal action against him over a series of allegations, including personation in postal voting and at polling stations, and ballot paper tampering.
A number of significant breaches of electoral legislation were observed, particularly in proxy voting as well as personation and failure to produce identity papers when signing election documents.
Currently, there are certain offences in the Criminal Code relating to the misuse of another person's identity information, such as personation and forgery.
In addition to the trafficking of persons or documents, documentary fraud, corruption, personation or money laundering, we now find certain offences that a corporation or its representative may be charged with as an employer.

I can compare this personation to nothing so much as to that of a man haunted by a fiend.
In the Seville auto of September 24, 1559, there were three cases of personation.
And it was believed that in this behalf, they were having recourse to personation.
If they were in any way due to confederates, or to personation by the medium, such variations would not be likely to occur.
To such a one, neither a confederate nor a personation by the medium can pass undetected.
In such a personation, make-up becomes a serious part of art.
They are bribery, treating, undue influence, and personation.
No man surely 20 ever had so little talent for personation as Johnson.
As to the personation of votes, there should have been no allegation made.
Trial of Sudanese citizen and three Egyptians on charges of fraud and personation.
How marvelously easy of accomplishment the act of personation had been!
The maximum penalty for personation is two years' imprisonment.

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