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A record 7.3 million Canadians I arrive at your tickets for federal elections in advance during the long weekend, according to an estimate of the Canada elections.
The non -partisan agency said based on its preliminary figures, which marks a 25 percent of the 5.8 million voters who voted in advance during the federal elections of 2021.
Françoise Enguehard, Regional Media Advisor in the Atlantic region for Canada’s elections, He told CBC News It is too early to say if record participation that will lead to greater electoral participation for elections in general, but said it is a sign that Canadians are “committed.”
That commitment has led many questions about the vote on the ASK CBC News input tray. We already have responded some of the most frequent consultationsBut we are still receiving more questions.
As the election day on April 28 is more and more, here are answers to more of their most pressing voting questions.
How do I know if my ballot has been received by mail?
Canada’s elections will not communicate with you proactively to confirm when your ballot was received, but there are ways to verify it.
If you requested online to vote from your electoral district, you can verify the status of your vote through Online voter registration service. You will have to use the reference number you received when you sent your application.
Otherwise, you can verify the status of your application or return the vote by calling the Canada elections to 1-800-463-6868 (no charge in Canada and the US. UU.). Deaf people or with hearing problems can call 1-800-361-8935 (no charge in Canada and the United States).
Canada’s elections says that you can only confirm the status of a ballot by mail once it has arrived and has been prosecuted. It is important to keep in mind that the ticket can be in the mail system for several days.
Mail tickets issued by voters from inside their driving must reach their local elections of the Canadian office for when the surveys close on the day of the elections to tell. Those chosen by voters from outside their driving must reach the Ottawa headquarters of Canada before 6 pm local time on the day of the elections to tell.
Why can’t I vote online?
Canada’s elections says it has no plans to introduce online vote.
“Online vote is not safe enough: if an choice were pirated, our democracy would be under threat. It is too risky,” Canada’s elections says on its website.
Even if I wanted to introduce the vote online, Canada’s elections says it depends on Parliament to modify the Canadian election law to change the way people vote in Canadian elections.
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I have two directions because I have a cabin and a house. Can I vote in each driving?
No, you just get a vote. If you live in two locations, Canada’s elections say you must register using the address you consider your home.
There are measures to ensure that voters do not vote twice. For example, if a special voting application is accepted and you receive a voting kit, which you must vote by mail, your name is holful from the list of voters that remains in the surveys.
If the day of the elections appears and find your name, you will have to explain what happened to the voting kit that were sent. If he did not receive his kit or lost it, he will have to make an oath that has no longer launched a special ballot.
Then you will be allowed to vote. But he will be told to have voted in person and have received a voting kit. The Canada elections will verify their ticket records by mail to ensure that you have only issued a vote.
You can bring your own pen or pencil when you vote, and if you mark your vote with a pencil, the elections, Canada, says it is not at risk of being changed or manipulated.
If you are guilty of intentionally requesting a second voteIt can be fined up to $ 50,000 or imprisoned for up to five years.
Can I register a protest vote if I don’t like any of the candidates?
Although some provinces Allowing voters to register a protest vote decreasing a vote for a provincial election, there is no official way to do so in a federal election.
“There is no procedure in the Canadian election law to protest or reject a ballot or vote ‘none of the previous ones’. If a ballot is thrown without choosing a candidate, it is considered rejected,” Canada Elections told CBC News in an email.
If an elector puts a mark next to the name of more than one candidate, it will also be recorded as a rejected vote. Basically, every time an voter throws a ballot that cannot be counted for a candidate in his driving, he will be considered rejected.
If a voter immediately returns the ballot without marking the voting station assistant and never casts it, it will not be recorded as a protest vote. In that case, it will be marked as a spoiled ballot.
The spoiled ballots, a ballot that does not put in an urn, also include those that are delivered to a survey station worker after an error was made.
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The rejected and spoiled tickets are still traced as part of the counting process, but Canada’s elections say that the reason why they were rejected or spoiled is not reported.
That has not prevented some people from publicly protesting election day. In 2000, Marika Warner mixed her federal electoral ballot in a shake and drank in protest at an Edmonton voting station.
But what Warner did was considered a crime under the election law. She and some other members of the Comesible Ballots Society were accused of destroying their tickets, although She told CBC in 2019 that the charges were finally eliminated.
