If you already know you're going to be busy, unable to physically reach the polls, or away on vacation (lucky you) on Election Day, make a plan to vote early!
You have four options:
- Vote by mail! In order for your ballot to be counted, it must arrive at the local returning office no later than 8 p.m. on Election Day.
- Vote at an advanced poll! Advance voting will be available 9 days prior to the election and the Monday 7 days prior to the election, from 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.
- Vote at home! You can contact your returning office and request that special voting officers visit your home if you are unable to attend the ordinary or advance polls due to the illness or other incapacity, or due to the illness or incapacity of a person for whose care you are primarily responsible.
- Vote in a nursing or care home! If you are living at a nursing home, special care home, or other treatment centre, you can vote within the treatment centre - either at an “additional poll” if one is set up in the common area, or request a personal bedside ballot box visit from a special ballot team at a pre-arranged time.