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If you live in the new electoral riding of Nepean and received a voting card marked “replacement card” it’s not a prank.
Elections Canada says 456 residents in the riding will receive new cards after the agency identified polling stations closer to their homes.
Norma Styles was one of the recipients of the reissued cards. When she saw the replacement card — and noticed the polling station address had changed from D. Aubrey Moodie Intermediate School in Bells Corners to a closer location at Arlington Woods Free Methodist Church on McClellan Road in Nepean — she was worried the change would confuse people.
“We are just concerned that this can cause confusion and cause some people to not get to vote,” said Styles.
However, Elections Canada spokesperson James Hale says there are many reasons why a replacement card would be issued. In the case of Nepean, the redistribution of electoral boundaries for this year’s election created a scenario where people who live close to one another were being sent to different stations. Some residents were initially being sent to polling stations that would require driving, while their neighbours across the street were being sent to a polling station within walking distance.
“So when (Elections Canada) discovered this they decided to change the poll location so that the people on the other side of the street who were being sent further away can go to the closer polling place…where their neighbours across the street are being sent to,” said Hale.
pmccooey@ottawacitizen.com
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Elections Canada says 456 residents in the riding will receive new cards after the agency identified polling stations closer to their homes.
Norma Styles was one of the recipients of the reissued cards. When she saw the replacement card — and noticed the polling station address had changed from D. Aubrey Moodie Intermediate School in Bells Corners to a closer location at Arlington Woods Free Methodist Church on McClellan Road in Nepean — she was worried the change would confuse people.
“We are just concerned that this can cause confusion and cause some people to not get to vote,” said Styles.
However, Elections Canada spokesperson James Hale says there are many reasons why a replacement card would be issued. In the case of Nepean, the redistribution of electoral boundaries for this year’s election created a scenario where people who live close to one another were being sent to different stations. Some residents were initially being sent to polling stations that would require driving, while their neighbours across the street were being sent to a polling station within walking distance.
“So when (Elections Canada) discovered this they decided to change the poll location so that the people on the other side of the street who were being sent further away can go to the closer polling place…where their neighbours across the street are being sent to,” said Hale.
pmccooey@ottawacitizen.com
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