UBC Professor Max Cameron says Elections Canada polling stations on college campuses look to be helping already.
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At an advance poll at Ottawa’s City Hall, voters waited up to an hour and 20 minutes to vote in the riding of Ottawa Centre.
Crowds started forming shortly after polls opened at noon on Friday, and continued throughout the day.
“We ended up voting because I am determined to vote”. Elections Canada said polling officers in the Windsor area were unavailable to speak Saturday.
“Several people left. Will they return?”
Electors who choose to vote in person must visit an Elections Canada office before 6pm on Tuesday, October 13.
“If you don’t have that, then there is a long list of combinations of pieces you can use (on Elections Canada’s website)”, says Hale. If they do not have that they must provide two pieces of identification, providing one of them contains their current address.
An estimated 42,000 students across Canada took advantage of the pilot project and Elections Canada is studying the possibility rolling out a wider program across the country for the next federal election.
Listen up. This election thing on October 19 that everyone’s yammering on about is about to get real.
The 54-year-old said his advance polling station was located in a small room with about 100 people in line before it opened.
The recent enforcement of the residency rules related to long-term expats has sparked a groundswell of opposition from many of them, who argue their constitutional right to vote is being trampled.
Those interested in voting this year will need to bring proof of identity and address with them to the polling station.
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The Saskatoon man lives on Eighth Street near Lorne Avenue and has voted in past elections at a nearby school.
