[ql06] PUBLIC: Declining vote in Ontario (R.S.O. 1990, c. E.6, s. 53)
- From: "Ken Campbell -- LAW'06" <2kc16@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ql06@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 04:42:46 -0400
Our Dear Dawn (a list member and general friend to humans everywhere)
asked if the following was a QL06 WORLD NEWS kinda thing.
I think it is.
It deals with public law -- voting regulations and rule of law -- and
it's investigative. That is, Dawn did her own digging around and even
provides the email chain that found the answer.
Ken.
--
This is the patent age of new inventions
For killing bodies, and for saving souls,
All propagated with the best intentions.
-- Lord Byron
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----Original Message Follows----
From: "Info" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: dlivicker@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Declining the ballot (Thread:2293)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:18:01 -0400
Dear Dawn,
Here is what the Election Act states:
Declined ballot
53. An elector who has received a ballot and returns it to
the deputy returning officer declining to vote, forfeits the
right to vote and the deputy returning officer shall
immediately write the word "declined" upon the back of the
ballot and preserve it to be returned to the returning
officer and shall cause an entry to be made in the poll
record that the elector declined to vote.
R.S.O. 1990, c. E.6, s. 53.
Thank You,
Elections Ontario
For more information please visit our website at
www.electionsontario.on.ca or call 1-888-ONT-VOTE
(1-888-668-8683).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dawn Livicker" <dlivicker@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 7:39 PM
Subject: Declining the ballot (Thread:2293)
> Hi. I don't feel that any of the parties running candidates in my
riding
> deserve either my vote or the mandate to run this province. That
said, I
> don't want my lack of participation classified as apathy. I read in a
letter
> to the editor of the Toronto Star that there is something called
declining
> the ballot where my rejection of the candidates is noted and
reported.
Does
> such an option exist? How do I exercise it? Why isn't elections
ontario
> presenting this option to the public if it does exist?
> Thank-you,
> Dawn Livicker
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