Mail-in ballots done on a large scale could open the door to manipulation and election fraud, says independent MP Derek Sloan, who recently voted against a federal government bill that includes this option as one way of helping to make voting safer during the pandemic. “We typically avail [mail-in] ballots for people that are out of the country or overseas, the military, and so on, and that’s fine. But when it’s done in a large-scale manner in Canada, I think it does open to possibilities for fraud and manipulation,” Sloan told The Epoch Times. Sloan was the lone dissenting vote on the second reading of Bill C-19, which passed with all-party approval in principle on May 11. The bill, which aims to provide temporary rules for Elections Canada to conduct an election safely should one take place during the COVID-19 pandemic, will now go to the Standing Committee on Procedure …