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1999 Provincial Election Information
Election Day

The Elections Act is very specific as to who has a right to be in the polling station and in the area where voters are casting their ballots. No others shall be permitted to enter the room where the poll is held during the time the poll remains open than:

Who Can Be at the Polls
  • An elector entitled or claiming to be entitled to vote;

  • A candidate;

  • One scrutineer for each candidate;

  • One elector to represent each recognized party if no scrutineer has arrived;

  • A constable;

  • An elector to be sworn in with an eligible elector to vouch for the elector;

  • A friend of an incapacitated elector.

  • Representatives of a bona fide news broadcaster or news publication may be permitted by the returning officer to enter the room where the poll is held for the sole purpose of photographing or otherwise visually recording the casting of the ballot by a candidate of a recognized party provided
    (a) the candidate agrees to the presence of the representatives;
    (b) previous arrangements to the satisfaction of the returning officer have been made;
    (c) no interviews shall be conducted in the room where the poll is held; and
    (d) the representatives immediately leave the room where the poll is held once the candidate’s ballot has been cast.

    They may be at the returning office for the election returns after the polls close.

Special Needs Groups The Elections Branch is working to remove all barriers to voting for all citizens, especially those with special needs. Level access will be available at the offices of all 55 Returning Officers in the province. Level access will be available with few exceptions at our 1715 polling stations. If there are polling stations that are not accessible ,then voters on noting the polling station on their enumeration slip may vote by applying for a transfer certificate available until the polls open on Election Day or may wish to vote at the office of the Returning Officer up until four days prior to Election Day.

Ballots will have much larger type for those whose eyesight may be diminished and who wish to vote on their own. Braile templates which fit over the ballot and have circles die-cut over the corresponding notches on the ballots are available for the blind.

Communications The Elections Branch believes in an informed electorate and will issue press releases to better educate the public on any issues that arise as well as all information to make the electoral process better known to the public on the democratic right to vote.

Digitized Mapping The Elections Branch introduced digitized, computer generated electoral district and polling division maps in 1991. The electoral districts and their polling divisions and descriptions are printed by colour laser and are clearer and more accurate than the manually produced maps of the past and are easier to produce. This makes it easier for enumerators going door to door to know their polling divisions.

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