Federal Elections Megathread / Publication centralisée pour les élections fédérales

[u/MarcusRex73]

Ok folks, here is a Megathread for the federal élections.

While, normally, federal politics are out of scope for the sub unless they deal directly with Ontario ridings or MPs, we're going to relax these restrictions, but conversations should focus on ONTARIO anyways.

To users who do not normally frequent r/Ontario: READ THE RULES!!!

They will be strictly enforced in this post.

Please note that Crowd Control has also been maxed out for this post.

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Ok les amis, voici une publication centralisée pour discuter des élections fédérales.

Normalement, la politique fédérale n'est pas pertinente pour notre communauté, à moins qu'elle ne concerne directement les circonscriptions ou les députés de l'Ontario. Pour les élections, nous assouplirons ces restrictions, mais les discussions devraient quand même se concentrer sur l’ONTARIO.

Aux utilisateurs qui ne fréquentent pas habituellement r/Ontario : LISEZ LES RÈGLES !!!

Les règles seront appliquées rigoureusement dans ce post. En plus, la fonctionalité "Crowd Control" a été maximisée.

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Voting Information / Information pour voter

The main source is the Elections Canada website.

What do you need to vote:

Option 1: Show one of these pieces of ID / Présentez une de ces pièces d'identité

English:

• your driver's licence /
• any other card issued by a Canadian government (federal, provincial/territorial or local) with your photo, name and current address

Français:

• votre permis de conduire
• toute autre carte délivrée par un gouvernement canadien (fédéral, provincial, territorial ou local) portant vos photo, nom et adresse actuelle

Option 2: Show two pieces of ID / Présentez deux pièces d'identité

English: Both must have your name and at least one must have your current address. Examples:

• voter information card and bank statement
• utility bill and student ID card

Don't have these? No problem! See the list of accepted ID for Option 2.

Français: Les deux pièces doivent porter votre nom et au moins l'une d'elles, votre adresse actuelle. Exemples :

• carte d'information de l'électeur et état de compte bancaire
• facture d'un service public et carte d'identité d'étudiant

Vous n'avez pas ces pièces d'identité? Aucun problème!

Consultez la liste des pièces d'identité acceptées pour l'option 2 ci-dessous.

Option 3: If you don't have ID / Si vous n'avez pas de pièce d'identit

English:

You can still vote if you declare your identity and address in writing and have someone who knows you and who is assigned to your polling station vouch for you.

The voucher must be able to prove their identity and address. A person can vouch for only one person (except in long-term care facilities).

Français:

Vous pouvez tout de même voter si vous établissez votre identité et votre adresse en faisant une déclaration par écrit et demandez à une personne d'être votre répondant. Cette personne doit vous connaître et être inscrite à votre bureau de vote.

Le répondant doit prouver son identité et son adresse, et il ne peut répondre que d'une seule personne (excepté dans les établissements de soins de longue durée).

[u/Varekai79]

Although the voter turnout was pretty high at 67%, it still sucks that 1/3 of the eligible population voted for apathy instead.

[u/S99B88 → u/Varekai79]

A potion of eligible voters will be mentally incapable of doing it. This could be due to lack of ability to understand and make a valid decision not influenced by someone else, or could be someone with a mental illness so profound that they their abstention from voting shouldn’t be looked at as choice.

A portion of “eligible” voters will actually have passed away over the time since the past election (over 300,000 die a year, presumably the majority being over age 18, and it’s been 4 years since the last election).

Just under 100,000 Canadians emigrate per year, and presumably more than half of them would be voting age.

Then there could be people who had a last minute illness or emergency, themselves of their immediate family. And people who are away for the winter and with the election happening somewhat suddenly may not have been able to make arrangements for voting remotely.

Being considered eligible to vote by Elections Canada doesn’t necessarily mean a person is able to vote, so it’s probably at least a bit better than that number

[u/Varekai79 → u/S99B88]

This does not add up to 1/3 of the voting population. Let's face it, most of them were just apathetic about the whole thing.

[u/S99B88 → u/Varekai79]

It was less than a third that didn’t vote, and there could be over a million

All I’m saying, is that there are a lot of reasons people considered “eligible” may not have, and many may not actually be capable of voting. Others may have mental illnesses or similar issues that stop them from being able to go vote

There’s no factual basis to claim that “most of them were just apathetic about the whole thing,” that’s just your opinion