Elections

If you are an Ontario resident over the age of 18 you can confirm or update your information in a few easy steps. You can also change your school support for electoral purposes and add names to your property address.

Updating this information will help to ensure that municipal Voters’ Lists are accurate and up-to-date in preparation for municipal and school board elections occurring this October.

Is your name on the Voter's List?

• Visit VoterLookup.ca to confirm that your name is on the Voter's List for the 2022 Municipal Election.

Add your name to the Voter's List

• Print the EL15 Form, complete and submit it with photo ID to the Municipal Office.

For the 2022 Municipal Election, The Municipality of Arran-Elderslie will offer Internet or Telephone voting. Eligible electors will be able to vote from a mobile device, computer, telephone, cell phone, tablet, or laptop. Internet or telephone voting is a convenient option for electors, allowing them to access ballots anytime, anywhere.

Eligible voters will receive a personalized voting instruction package well before Election Day (October 24, 2022) with details on how to vote online or by phone.

For the 2022 elections, voting will open on Monday, October 17, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. and will conclude at 8:00 p.m. on October 24, 2022.

Electronic voting stations will also be available at the Municipal office during the voting period for public use.

Click here to view the Simply Voting demonstration video

• 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.

The following individuals cannot vote in a municipal election:

• 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.

A person who is acting as an executor or in any other representative capacity (e.g., power of attorney), cannot vote on behalf of the person they are representing unless they have been appointed as a voting proxy.

If a person has no permanent residence, then the following rules determine his or her residence:

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.

Trailer owners in campgrounds are tenants of the campground; therefore, they are potentially eligible if they meet the requirements of Section 17(2) of the MEA, can provide a tenancy agreement showing that they are entitled to use the land on Voting Day (October 24, 2022).

Under a timeshare contract, to be eligible, the person must be able to prove that they are entitled to use the land on Voting Day or for a period of six weeks or more during the calendar year in which the election is held.

• An Ontario driver's licence 
• An Ontario Health Card (photo card) 
• An Ontario Photo Card 
• An Ontario motor vehicle permit (vehicle portion) 
• A cancelled personalized cheque

• Different last/first names (eg: married, and birth names)
• Different birth dates on the voters' list
• Different addresses
• and a combination of the above

The Clerk’s Department conducts an extensive review of possible duplicates identified (flagged by our Voters’ List software Voterview) before issuing the Voting PIN Letters. We will remove duplicate names where it is appropriate, but keep both electors if they appear to be twin siblings, or two different people with very similar names/birthdates.

This process has been completed in every Arran-Elderslie Election in the past as it was possible that duplicate Mail-In-Voting kits/PIN Letters were mailed to one elector, however each election some duplicates are discovered following the initial mailing.

What to do with a duplicate? Electors should contact the Municipal Office (519-363-3039 X 101 ) and let us know right away. We will deactivate the duplicate PIN letter (by deleting the elector) as soon as possible to ensure the extra PIN cannot be used to vote twice.

Why does this most commonly happen? Our experience with duplicates tells us that often one of the duplicate PIN Letters is usually not associated with any birthdate information in our Voters’ List software. If this is the case, the 'duplicate elector' would not be able to vote with the second PIN, as all electors must enter a valid birth date to vote (the voting system will not allow someone to leave the year of birth blank for security purposes). So even if someone receives two Voting PIN letters, they likely won't be able to vote with one of them, until they call the Municipal Office.

What happens if I am able to vote twice using two Municipality of Arran-Elderslie PIN Letters? All electors when voting must accept the oath that states in part: “Section 89 of the Municipal Elections Act, 1996, as amended, provides that a person is guilty of an offence and liable, on conviction, to a fine of not more than $25,000, if they…votes more times than this Act allows;”. If an elector votes twice in the Municipality of Arran-Elderslie with either a duplicate Voting PIN Letter, or any another Voting PIN Letter, they are violating the Municipal Elections Act.

Someone moved away that received a PIN Letter: Electors who received Voting PIN letters from family members who have moved away should be advised to send the letters back in the mail “Return to Sender-Moved”.

Internet voting allows voters to vote from their home through secured internet services. This method provides for easy voting for persons with a variety of disabilities to cast their vote with independence and privacy as voters have the option of using the assistive tools they have on their own computer such as paddles, a hand-held touchpad, a thumb switch or sip and puff technology.

This method of voting is designed to encourage voter participation as voters do not have to attend a physical location to cast their ballot and accessibility and privacy for people with disabilities is maximized.

The internet election platform will include the capability to change font size and colour scheme.

Telephone voting allows voters to vote from their home through secured telephone services which provides for easy voting for people with a variety of disabilities to cast their vote with independence and privacy. Land lines or cell phones can be used to vote and the method is compatible with assistive devices.

Voters can register their vote selections with the telephone keypad or voice commands, greatly increasing accessibility, privacy and independence for voters who do not have internet access.