Last Day To Vote At Elections Canada Office

Polls are open from noon until 8:00 p.m. “I think there were people who were dissuaded from voting”, Coleman said on Monday, the last day of advance polling.

Green Party leader Elizabeth May offered a Thanksgiving message of hope to Canadian Muslims left out in the cold by Stephen Harper’s fearmongering tactics ahead of the October. 19 federal election.

Early voter registration closes Friday, but there are still ways to cast a ballot this federal election.

The location of advance polls are listed on people’s voter-identification cards. When they showed up at the polling station Friday afternoon there were 20 people in line but Elections Canada had set up only one table to process them all.

That number looks set to be exceeded this year, especially as this time there are four days of advance voting, compared to three in 2011.

You can vote in any Elections Canada office, anywhere in Canada. “Advance polls are busy, but I have never seen them this busy”. But if you can’t make it out to a polling station on the 19th, you still have time today.

The act also allows electors to take part in strategic voting, whether it is on the internet or in other forums, says Sitek.

While those lines may have diminished somewhat by Sunday, people were still turning out in droves to cast their vote for the next government of Canada.

Sitek said on Monday that “adjustments” were made starting Saturday to better accommodate the volume of voters.

“When we were coming back from dinner about 7-ish, it was completely empty”, said John Reid.

A few of the temporary staff Elections Canada hired for this period were ignorant of the law, and even tried turning away people who had fully satisfied the ID rules.

The idea is that if you don’t think your preferred party will win your riding, you can go online and swap your vote with another person in a different riding.