Every vote counts

Shortly before the day of the October 2022 municipal election, several voters in one municipality complained to us that their mail-in ballots arrived too late. Municipal clerks are responsible for local elections, and in this municipality, the clerk confirmed that Canada Post had delivered some mail-in ballots too late for voters to return them by mail in time to be counted. To ensure they still had the opportunity to vote, the municipality allowed them to drop off these ballots at City Hall and a second location on election day. We shared this information with the complainants and explained that the municipality had addressed the delays by providing affected voters with an alternative way to use their mail-in ballots.