• Students can bring to polling stations a driver’s licence or another piece of photo ID with both name and address. If a student does not have a driver’s licence, polling officers will accept two pieces of identification: one with their name and one with their name and address. Students can be vouched for by another voter with correct name and address identification. However, voters can only vouch for one other person.
• Students who move away for school and want to vote in the home riding can do so by registering with Elections Canada online and then voting at a returning office, special voting offices being set up at Carleton, or by mail.
• For students in residence who want to vote in the Ottawa-Centre riding, they can get a Confirmation of Residence letter from Accommodations Services which stands in for proof of an Ottawa-Centre address. For those who have not yet voted, there will be a regular advance poll at Hopewell Avenue School on Oct. 9-12, as well as an Election Day station in Fenn Lounge on Oct. 19.
• Students who do not live in residence but want to vote in the riding they live in while attending school, who intend to vote in advanced polls can go to a designated advanced polling station determined by their civic address. On election day, these students must vote at their designated election day poll, and not at Carleton. The location of election day polls is determined by their civic address, which is located in their electoral district of their riding. Students can register at their designated polls. Students who are unsure of where they have to vote can check on the Elections Canada website.
• Special Elections Canada voting stations will be on campus from Oct. 5-8 for all students who want to vote either in their home riding or in Ottawa-Centre. The offices will be in the yoga room at the Athletic Centre, Rooms 272-274 of Residence Commons and the University Centre atrium.
—With information from Elections Canada
