Bill C-83

Prohibitions

(a) post or display in, or on the exterior surface of, a polling place any campaign literature or other material that could be taken as an indication of support for or opposition to a registered party or the election of a candidate;

(b) while in a polling station, wear any emblem, flag, banner or other thing that indicates that the person supports or opposes any candidate or registered party, or the political or other opinions entertained, or supposed to be entertained, by the candidate or registered party; and

(c) in a polling station or in any place where voting at an election is taking place, influence electors to vote or refrain from voting or vote or refrain from voting for a particular candidate.

(a) apply for a ballot in a name that is not his or her own;

(b) use a forged ballot;

(c) knowing that he or she is without authority under this Act to do so, provide a ballot to any person; or

(d) knowing that he or she is without authority under this Act to do so, have a ballot in his or her possession.

(a) alter, deface or destroy a ballot or the initials of the deputy returning officer signed on a ballot;

(b) put or cause to be put into a ballot box a ballot or other paper otherwise than as provided by this Act;

(c) take a ballot out of the polling station; or

(d) destroy, take, open or otherwise interfere with a ballot box or book or packet of ballots.

(a) with the intent of causing the reception of a vote that should not have been cast or the non-reception of a vote that should have been cast, put his or her initials on the back of any paper purporting to be or capable of being used as a ballot at an election; or

(b) place on any ballot any writing, number or mark, with intent that the elector to whom the ballot is to be, or has been, given may be identified.

PART 10

ADVANCE POLLING

Establishment of Advance Polling Stations

Registration

Voting Procedure

(a) give a notice, in the prescribed form, in the electoral district of the advance poll, that sets out the following information:

(i) the numbers of the polling divisions in every advance polling district established by the returning officer,

(ii) the location of each advance polling station,

(iii) the place where the deputy returning officer of each advance polling station shall count the number of votes cast at the advance polling station, and

(iv) that the counting of the votes cast shall take place on polling day as soon after the close of the polling stations as possible; and

(b) send two copies of the notice to each candidate and to the Chief Electoral Officer.

(a) the deputy returning officer has ascertained with the returning officer that the elector is on the preliminary list of electors or was registered during the revision period referred to in section 96, and the elector has provided the deputy returning officer with satisfactory proof of identity; or

(b) the elector has obtained a registration certificate in accordance with subsection 169(3).

(a) the deputy returning officer, the poll clerk, a candidate or a representative of a candidate at the advance polling station asks that the person take the oath referred to in subsection 144(2) and the person refuses to do so; or

(b) the person refuses to sign the record of votes cast at an advance polling station referred to in subsection (2), as directed by the poll clerk under that subsection.

(a) mark on the record the notations that the poll clerk is required by this Act to make opposite an elector's name at a polling station on polling day; and

(b) direct the elector to sign the record opposite their name.

(a) open the ballot box and ascertain that it is empty;

(b) seal the ballot box with the seals provided by the Chief Electoral Officer; and

(c) place the ballot box on a table in full view of all present and keep it there until the close of the advance polling station on that day.

(a) unseal and open the ballot box;

(b) empty the ballots cast during that day, in a manner that does not disclose for whom any elector has voted, into the envelope supplied for the purpose, seal the envelope with the seal provided by the Chief Electoral Officer and indicate on it the number of ballots contained in it;

(c) count the spoiled ballots, place them in the envelope supplied for the purpose, seal the envelope and indicate on it the number of spoiled ballots contained in it;

(d) count the unused ballots and the number of electors who have voted, and place the unused ballots and a copy of the record of votes cast at the advance polling station in the envelope supplied for the purpose, seal the envelope with the seal provided by the Chief Electoral Officer and indicate on it the number of unused ballots contained in it and the number of electors who have voted; and

(e) place the envelopes referred to in paragraphs (b) to (d) in the ballot box after the signatures have been made as described in subsection (3), and seal the ballot box.

(a) unseal and open the ballot box, leaving in it the sealed envelopes containing the spoiled ballots and the ballots cast on the previous day or days of voting;

(b) take out and open the envelope that contains the unused ballots and the record of votes cast at the advance polling station; and

(c) seal the ballot box, place it on the table in full view of all present and keep it there until the close of the advance polling station on that day.