Who can vote?
Who can’t vote?
Are you a student?
Are you experiencing homelessness?
Can’t make it out to vote on voting day or advanced polling dates?
Contact your City Clerks for more information
Who can vote?
On voting day, you get one vote (even if you have more than one qualifying address,)if you are:
-A Canadian Citizen
-At least 18 Years Old
-Residing in the local municipality or an owner or tenant of land there, or the spouse of such owner or tenant; and
-not otherwise prohibited from voting
Who can’t vote:
-A person serving a sentence of imprisonment in a penal or correctional institution
-A corporation; or
-A person convicted of a corrupt practice for an election held within four years of voting day
Are you a student?
Students who reside in Waterloo Region for school may choose to vote in Waterloo Region if they consider it their primary residence. Students who consider their primary residence to be in a different municipality should vote, either directly or by proxy, in their home municipality. To find out more about voting by proxy, please scroll down.
If you would like to find out more about voting as a student, please contact your municipality’s Clerk’s office.
If you would like to refer to the Municipal Election’s Act, please click here.
Are you a person who is experiencing homelessness?
Persons experiencing homelessness can vote even though they may not have a fixed address. In the absence of a permanent address, the following rules determine your residence for the purposes of voting:
1. The place in which the person most frequently returned to sleep or eat during the five weeks preceding the determination.
2. If the person returns with equal frequency to one place to sleep and another to eat, the place in which he or she sleeps.
3. Multiple returns to the same place during a single day, to eat or sleep, are considered to be one return.
A person’s affidavit regarding the places to which he or she returned to eat or sleep during a given time period is conclusive, in the absence of evidence to the contrary.
Can’t make it out to vote on either voting day or the advanced polling dates?
If you can’t vote yourself, you can appoint a proxy, by filling out this form: http://bit.ly/bau1Nk
Things to note:
-You can only appoint one voting proxy.
-No one can act as a voting proxy for more than one person unless they are spouses, siblings, parent and child, or grandparent and grandchild.
-Proxies must:
-complete the application in the proxy form, “including a statuatory declaration that he or she is the person appointed as a voting proxy” and must present that application and declaration in person to the city clerk (bring two copies).
Please note that proxy voting forms will not be accepted until the end of the candidates’ nomination period (not until after 2:00 p.m. on Friday, September 10th, 2010).
Have questions about proxy voting? Contact your City Clerk’s office!:
Contact info for City Clerks:
Kitchener:
General Information Line: (519) 741-2203
election@kitchener.ca
Waterloo:
Lindsay Walden
Telephone: (519) 747-8704
elections@waterloo.ca
Cambridge:
Telephone: (519) 740-4680
clerks@cambridge.ca
Wilmot:
Toll Free Telephone: 1-800-469-5576
Telephone: (519) 634-8444
Fax: (519) 634-5522
Barbara McLeod, Director of Clerk’s Services: barb.mcleod@wilmot.ca
Dawn Mittelholtz, Deputy Clerk: dawn.mittelholtz@wilmot.ca
Wellesley:
Susan Duke, CAO/Clerk
Telephone: (519) 699-4611
Fax: (519) 699-4542
sduke@township.wellesley.on.ca
North Dumfries:
Rodger Mordue: rmordue@township.northdumfries.on.ca
(519) 621-0340 ext.11
Woolwich:
Christine Broughton, Director of Council & Information Services
Telephone: (519) 669-1647, ext. 6004
Charlene Lavigne, Executive Assistant of Council & Information Services
Telephone: (519) 669-1647, ext. 6006
Email: c.lavigne@woolwich.ca
Region of Waterloo:
Lee Ann, Deputy Clerk
Telephone: (519) 575-4410
wleeann@regionofwaterloo.ca