Misery loves company. It looks like our neighbors to the north are experiencing a voter suppression scandal of their own, not unlike those we have right here in the good old U S of A. Meantime, Colorado voters who thought they were registering by mail had an unpleasant surprise.

Colorado first, via the Denver Post:

More than 17,000 Coloradans received voter-registration cards in the mail last week as part of a Washington, D.C.-based organization’s campaign to register unmarried women, minorities and young adults before the 2012 elections.

One problem: Anyone who filled out and mailed in the cards won’t be registered…  But the forms were missing a signature line and affidavit — information required under state law.

The signature line was left off 17,291 cards. Those who mailed their registrations in are being alerted and given instructions on how to rectify this mess.

Moving north, a friend of mine who lives in Canada alerted me to a problem of their own. As she put it, “They won by a very small margin and in the ridings [voting districts] where they targeted Liberals with these fraud calls. They literally told Liberal voters to go to voting polls that did not exist or that they’d be picked up and driven there but no one showed. Tories here take their cues straight from GOP playbook.”

Via the Wall Street Journal:

The “robocall scandal,” as Canadian media are calling it, centers on complaints after last year’s parliamentary elections by some voters, who told Elections Canada, the agency that conducts the votes, that they had received misleading phone calls directing them to the wrong polling locations and late-night harassing phone calls.

The Ottawa Citzen has more.

Our many, many previous posts on voter suppression are here.