Cariboo-Prince George sees 9891 advance voters

Maudsley said Elections Canada is happy with the turnout at the polling stations. “It’s new to think about advance polls as just another way to vote without having to have an excuse offered”, he said.

You can do this by showing a driver’s licence, provincial or territorial identification card, or any government card displaying your photo, name and address; or you can show two pieces of ID, provided at least one shows your current address.

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Here on the North Shore we received numerous complaints about polling stations with a single voting booth open, lineups of an hour or more, inadequate staffing and poorly printed ballots causing confusion about whether they’d be considered spoiled or not.

Numbers from advance polls over the long-weekend are promising. The public increasingly depends on social media for a summary of the debates. I’ve gone to the polls in stormy weather, I’ve gone to the polls on crutches, I’ve gone when I was ill, and I’ve gone when I was convinced the people I was voting for didn’t stand a chance of winning.

Meanwhile, the Vancouver Island ridings of Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke and Saanich-Gulf Islands had the second and third-highest advance voter turnout in B.C.

“We had prepared for large numbers, but they exceeded our expectations”, she said.

He said the idea was to illustrate that every vote counts and that a small number of people could elect a government.

How are we going to tell if someone voted?

In Canada, we have very few valid excuses not to cast our ballots.

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When users put in their postal codes on the ‘My Voter information section of the Elections Canada home page they are ultimately led to the address of the office of the Red Deer-Mountain View riding returning officer in the City of Red Deer.

“I don’t get the sense this is anything intentional, but there’s room for efficiencies and improvements there”.

What if a scandal implicating a party leader is revealed before election day?