Are you Registered to Vote?
By this time you should have received your Voter Information Card
telling you where your polling station is located, if you have not
received one then either you are not on the list
or
you information on that list is incorrect and
you should
call
or visit your local Election Canada office and
get your information added or corrected.
If you did receive a card then check it out and make sure that the
name and address
matches
that on your personal identification, in particular the address.
If it does not contact EC and get the electors list corrected or you
may be turned away on voting day.
Find
your local EC office address and phone number here.......
UPDATE
I am told by someone who recently took poll clerk training that
should you turn up at a poll with address information that does not
match the listings or when you are not on the list then you will NOT
be turned away but added to the list and asked to swear that you have
not voted elsewhere.
Its a difficult choice we must make this time around in order to
remove the current dictator from power, the choice of which other
candidate (and thus the party they represent) is best placed to
defeat the incumbent, or new, conservative candidate is not always
clear in many ridings. You may be tempted to say I want him gone but
I am not sure who else to vote for and therefore not bother. Please
don’t do that, if the more that 40% of folks who did not vote last
time get out and vote ABC then ANYTHING can happen in any riding.
So make sure you are on the list, your details are correct, and
get out and VOTE, dont let Harper steal another election with his
unfair election act changes designed to discourage voting and prevent
Elections Canada from encouraging voters to vote and hamper
investigation of electoral fraud.
Advance voting days
October 9, 10, 11 and 12, noon to 8:00 p.m.
Election
Day is Oct 19
th
The
time polls are open will vary depending upon
your time zone but ALL are open a minimum of 12 hours
Other
ways to vote
Go
to any Elections Canada office by 6:00 p.m. on
Tuesday, October 13
No card?
Find
out where to vote and check out if you are on the voters list here by
entering your personal information
VOTE, VOTE, VOTE ABC
More voting wrinkles
Just found an interesting wrinkle in the voting process for those
who wish to keep their face covered, despite have all the required
documents the same as those who do not have photo ID and are
permitted to vote right away those with face covering must swear an
oath before they may vote. This does not seem logical or fair.
Those who want to make a protest by accepting a ballot and then
refusing to vote will not be counted as refusing but their blank
ballot placed in the box and counted as a spoiled ballot. A far
better way to make your dislike of the system known would be to vote
for a candidate who supports electoral reform. 31,000 people voted
for “none of the above” in the last provincial election in
Ontario where such an option was available, lets make every vote
count..... against the dictatorial and corrupt Harper Regime!
As in all previous elections those that are turned away due to
insufficient or incorrect identification or being at the wrong poll
are not counted so we will never know how many voters tried to vote
but were denied the opportunity. Please be sure you are on the voters
list and have matching identification.
This information and more can be found in the polling clerks
training manuals available on line on the Elections Canada site.
http://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=job&dir=form/droop/man&document=index&lang=e
You should also have received a flyer regarding what to do if you
did not receive a card which says you must present ......
1) Show
one of these pieces of ID
- your driver's licence
- your provincial or territorial ID card
- any other government card with your photo, name and
current address
2)
Show two pieces of ID
At least one must have
your current address
What it does NOT say that said
address much match in large part
the address that EC has on file if it does not or if they have no
listing you will have a problem.... call EC to ensure you can vote.
VOTE, VOTE, VOTE ABC
Almost 10 million Canadian voters
did
not vote for one reason or another in 2011, if
all these folks make their wished know in this the most important
election in years, possibly in Canadian history, then we CAN get rid
of this undemocratic regime.............
In the Grey-Bruce Owen Sound riding in 2011 the conservative
incumbent won by approximately 20,000 votes over the runner up
HOWEVER over 27,000 eligible voters did not vote
and there are almost 3,000 more eligible voters in our riding this
time around. You CAN make a difference get out and VOTE!
