For the second election in a row, Elections Canada has left me off the list. I’ll have to swear myself in at the polling station. I dutifully tick the box on my tax return every year to get on the voters’ list.
A stern letter will be going out to the Chief Electoral officer next week. (I’ve not wanted to bother him about it until after the election - I think he’s probably busy. 
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No, I have the opposite problem - because my house was divided into 5 apartments when we bought it, we still get voter registration cards for people I’ve never heard of, even 4 years after the fact. If I were an unscrupulous person, I could try to come up with some way to use those voter cards to vote more than once - instead, I march down to the Elections Canada office every time and give them back, saying “These people haven’t lived here for more than 4 years.”
They actually came to my door, took my info, and then I never got a card.
So I’ll swear in, no biggie.
it was no biggie for me last time, but it’s the two-in-a-row that’s getting to me. I would have thought that one of their post-election policies was to review all the swear-ins to see about adding them to the voting list. Instead, it appears to have been ignored, and when I spoke to a local Elections Canada official, he said that swearing-in isn’t likely to get you on the list. That sounds odd to me.
That, plus the fact that I’ve been ticking off the box on the income tax return that I want my name added to the voters’ list. What’s the point, if it doesn’t get picked up?
To get you ticked off?
(d&r)
I got my ex-wife’s voter registration card in the mail the other day. Of course, she has not lived here in quite some time, has certainly filed a few tax returns from her new address; and in fact, lives a couple of thousand miles away.
A few years ago, my non-Canadian-citizen (but legally, a permanent resident) brother-in-law was somehow put on the voters list. He didn’t vote, but had a good laugh about it.
Based on these incidents, and the stories posted here, I’m wondering just what is happening at Elections Canada.
The Beau and I recieved our cards, (and cards for the previous 3 families that lived here,oddly enough) and went to vote in the advanced polls last weekend. With the card, and his passport, he still needed me to vouch for him at the polling station. He doesn’t drive (vision problems) and doesn’t have photo ID with his (our) address on it. Considering I work till 5 on Monday, and he is busy starting at 7 it is a good thing we voted early. It could have been a hassle Monday getting to the polling station, waiting, and having to do this verification thing. As it was there was no one there when we arived last Saturday afternoon.
The wife and I have received our cards for every election since we moved to our present address in 94. No effort neccessary We are locked in baby. Maybe you don’t get a card if you didn’t vote in the previous election ?
But that’s just it - I did vote in the previous election - by swearing myself in at the polling station. And I was on the list for the 2006 election, and voted in it.
Same address since 06 ?
yep - haven’t moved.
No clue here. Always tick the box on my tax return, and have always gotten my card in the mail. I had assumed this meant the system works, but maybe I’m just lucky.
Bumped, this is the second year in a row, ticked the box on the tax form, haven’t moved, was on the list and voted at this address several times.
The bills don’t come in my name, and I don’t drive, my passport is expired, so I only marginally exist it seems.
Did make it to the office and got put back on the list, with my no photo, health card and a magazine sent to my name. Not one single person I asked, had any explanation on how this can happen.:dubious: