Elections Canada has made some changes to make it easier to vote.
Chief Electoral Officer Stephane Perrault says voting hours will now be 9:00am to 9:00pm from Friday, October 11th until Monday, October 14th.
Advance polls across the country will also increase 25% and there will be a streamlined process to reduce wait times.
Perrault is encouraging all Canadians to ensure they’re on this year’s voting list.
“By registering and updating your information, you are making sure that you will get a voter information card, generally known as a ‘VIC’, that will tell you everything that you need to know about when and where to vote.”
Perrault says many names on the the list for the 2015 election are no longer there.
“Removing electors who have been essentially in-active for many years. We would write to those electors and if they have not written back, we have removed those electors.”
Perrault says another 75,000 people who weren’t Canadians citizens or didn’t respond to inquiries about their citizenship have also been taken off the list.
For more information, visit https://www.elections.ca/home.aspx
