Tuesday June 20, 2023 | LANGFORD, BC [Updated: 1:54 pm]
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends | BY-ELECTION NEWS
Have you been out to vote yet in the Langford-Juan de Fuca by-election?
Ballots have been prepared by Elections BC.
There are five candidates on the ballot, listed in alphabetical order:
- Camille CURRIE, BC Green Party
- Mike HARRIS, Conservative Party
- Elena LAWSON, BC United
- Ravi PARMAR, BC NDP
- Tyson Riel STANDLUND, Communist Party of BC
Voting process:
Voters can expect the usual process… show your voter card (received by postal mail) and some picture ID.
- You’ll be shown the ballot, told that you can make your candidate selection with an ‘X’ in the circle to the right of the candidate’s name (or by filling in the circle).
- You’ll be shown how to slide your completed ballot into a black privacy folder.
- You”ll be handed a ballot and a black felt marker, then you head to the voting booth.
- After voting in the private voting booth you take your ballot (in the folder) to the election worker who handles the ballot-counting machine.
- The ballot-counting machine will read both sides of the ballot (so it doesn’t matter which way you put your ballot into the folder).
- The machine confirms processing of a completed ballot.
Exit survey:
Back in the lobby you may be asked to complete an exit survey. That’s done in the old fashioned way… pen on paper.
The survey is optional, but you may wish to fill any any comments about your voting experience as well as responding to the checkbox questions about the ease of difficulty of the voting process, if you were comfortable with the technology, and your level of confidence that your vote will be counted accurately.
Indicating your age (shown in 10-year cohorts) is optional.
Sticker:
Oh yeah, after you’ve voted, you will be cheerfully offered an Elections BC sticker than says “I Voted”. Most people think that’s fun.
Who can vote:
Anyone who lives in Langford, Highlands, Sooke and Juan de Fuca who is over the age of 18 who has lived in BC for at least six months and is a Canadian citizen may vote in the Langford-Juan de Fuca by-election.
Advance voting started on June 16 and runs daily through tomorrow June 21. Election day is this Saturday, June 24. | Click here for where and when to vote.
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===== ABOUT ISLAND SOCIAL TRENDS & the EDITOR:
Island Social Trends has been covering politics, business, education and communities through a socioeconomic lens since 2008 on south Vancouver Island (previously as West Shore Voice News, and before that both Sooke Voice News and MapleLine Magazine).
Island Social Trends posts news daily at islandsocialtrends.ca (2020-2023). A new bi-weekly print edition will launch in mid-July 2023, with the online news portal continuing robustly.
Mary P Brooke is the editor and publisher of Island Social Trends. Ms Brooke followed and wrote extensively about the COVID pandemic during 2020-2022, and continues to follow that topic as new developments arise. She has covered news of Sooke School District 62 (SD62) in-depth since 2014 and BC education more broadly for over 10 years; in 2022 she ran as a trustee candidate in SD62. In the west shore she also reports on West Shore Parks and Recreation. Mary Brooke is building a FOOD RESILIENCE NEWS ARCHIVE.
Ms Brooke now reports with the BC Legislative Press Gallery. Mary Brooke was awarded the McGeachy Prize in Journalism (University of Saskatchewan, 1981) and in 2023 year has been nominated for the Jack Webster Foundation Shelley Fralic Award honouring women whose work in journalism serves their community.
Among other qualifications, Ms Brooke holds a health sciences B.Sc. (Foods & Nutrition), a university Certificate in Public Relations, and an industry certificate in digital marketing.
Mary Brooke is actively covering the by-election in Langford-Juan de Fuca. | BY-ELECTION NEWS SECTION