Advance polls open across Canada for federal election

Beginning Oct. 9 and running until Oct. 12, polls are open from noon to 8 p.m.at advance polling stations.

Check your Voter Identification Card for the advance poll location in your area. Ballots must be returned to this office before the close of polls, 8:00 p.m., on November 3, 2015. “Yes, I expect it’s going to be a busy 10 days for us”.

McCoy, while understanding of the factors Elections Canada considers, believes the primary factor in selecting poll stations should be location.

After writing about a few of those examples in Vancouver, I asked readers to write me if they had trouble with their voter registration. They must allow time for their voting kit to reach them and for their marked ballot to return to Elections Canada.

Sitek says it’s just the fist day of advanced voting, and is asking people to be patient. Elections Canada officials won’t make any predictions about why, but much more Canadians showed up to vote on the fist day of advance voting.

Everyone in Cripps’s line had to go through one official who filled out paperwork for each voter, specifying their name and address before getting a signature, he said.

But Babin-Dufresne said there is nothing in the new Elections Act that was expected to cause delays, but stressed they appreciate voters’ patience.

Local Elections Canada spokesperson, Marie-France Kenny, says today is also scheduled for people in jail to vote.

For more information head to the Elections Canada website.

But according to Statistics Canada, only 39 per cent of those eligible in the 18- to 24-year-old age group voted in the 2011 federal election. If you are registered, you should have received a voter information card in the mail telling you where to vote.