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Voting Time Is upon Us

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After three months of federal government upheaval, a Liberal party leadership race and then a whirlwind federal election campaign, it’s finally time to vote. It’s our duty to ourselves, our families and friends and last but not least, to our country to do so. Every vote is important.

Photo courtesy of Elections Canada

Plan your day to ensure that you can get to your polling station; they will be open for 12 hours and your employer is required by law to allow you time to leave work for the purposes of voting. If you don’t have your registration card, be sure to bring along two pieces of identification that show your address. All Canadians 18 years and older may vote.

Photo courtesy of Elections Canada

If you are disabled, please click this link for further information on polling station accessibility: https://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=acc&document=index&lang=e

Happy Voting Day!

27 thoughts on “Voting Time Is upon Us”

  3. Voting is a privilege and and we should all do it, even if we “think” our vote will not make a difference, because by not voting, we are not making a difference in the right direction. We were lucky enough to vote at Elections Canada before we drove to the West Coast. Fingers crossed for the best outcome for Canada and her citizens. Allan

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    1. I couldn’t agree more, Allan. Even if you think your vote might not make a difference it’s still important. I’m not a fan of first-past-the-post and I don’t believe that method fairly reflects the country (silly me, I thought the first Trudeau government was going to work on that), but right now it’s what we have and yes, it’s how we can make a difference. Agreed Allan, fingers crossed for the best outcome.

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  6. Gez… a new stressor. Our voter registration cards never did show up. And while we didn’t move Canada Post moved us so our passports show our old address and other than our drivers licenses we can’t think of anythign that has our address on it. YIKES

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    1. Wow! That’s nuts! No picture on your health care card? I would go anyway and take along bank statements, credit card statements, utility bills, anything recent with my address. Together with your DLs that might work. I did that in the 2015 federal election after I had just moved and didn’t have anything besides a DL – it was within the three-month period so I wasn’t able to get a new health care card with picture at that point – other than banking documents. I pushed it and was allowed to vote. The other thing is that even though you didn’t get a voter card your name might be on the voter list, so that would help, too. Good luck with this, Bernie.

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      1. PS, Bernie, just so that you know, I wasn’t able to view your response to my comment on your recap post even though I had notification. WP says that your blog is private and that I’m not allowed to view it! When I went back to your original comment section, your response to my comment isn’t visible there, either. Another weird WP mystery.

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      2. Our health cards are just a card with our names and health number. I did pull out some utility bills to take along with us. Now we can’t seem to find where to vote as it states I am not registered. I know my nearest neighbour voted by mail…but I will call the next neighbour and see if they got a card. We have always voted at the community center in town so if Lynn doesn’t know any more than us that’s where we will start. I will keep you posted! Bernie

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    1. Yes, vote by mail exists at both the provincial and federal levels. Our voting is all done manually, too. Paper ballots and hand counting checked multiple times. You can’t hack a paper ballot or hand counting which is why voting technology has been consistently refused here. Cheers.

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  8. … and then I bet you, like me, watched returns late into the night (our advantage here, with our time zone), and again the next morning, and on through the day… As you rightly point out, our paper/pen/pencil system can’t be hacked and works well, but wow, that record advance-poll turnout slowed final counts — but then, every leader accepted the results and underlined the rules of democracy, it felt very good — civility will fade a bit as politics resumes, but there does seem to be a sober acceptance of the need for civility and cooperation. And strength!!

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    1. We definitely did, Penny, and then groggily watched Rosemary Barton – very groggy herself – bring us up to date the next morning. Agreed; the advance polls really slowed things down and of course now there are going to be a number of recounts too so it will be a bit before the outcome is completely solid. But yes, that’s okay. At least the outcome was accepted without question and PP wasn’t trying to incite a mob to attack Parliament.

      Agreed, the civility will fade, but one thing seems to be clear, and that’s that Canadians are tired of the silly antics and want the two main parties (three in Quebec) to get on with it; yes, with an onus on cooperation and strength. I think that may be the main reason for PP’s defeat in a riding he’s held for 20 years. People are tired of hearing that adolescent boy-man whine, complain and mislead with his childish slogans.

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  9. It was such a historic election. And one where every vote mattered given how tight a race it was in many ridings. It’s too bad about the timing of our trip to NZ. This was the first election where we didn’t vote.

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    1. It’s been a long time since we had such a nail biter! It took well into the next day before the results were relatively solid since several constituencies kept going back and forth. It’s a strong minority so it gives Carney some manoeuvrability but everyone has to cooperate, too. Yes, you missed an exciting one. I’m just glad that we avoided getting PP as PM!

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