OTTAWA — An advocacy group is urging four provinces to push their fixed election dates back to the end of October.
Democracy Watch says Ontario, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island all have election dates fixed in early October, which causes problems for many voters.
The group says the elections should be set back to the last Monday in October or even early November.
It says parents busy getting children settled in school in September have little time to participate in election campaigns or even pay them much attention.
University students are also tied up in September and may have difficulty establishing residency at their school location until later in October, which keeps them from voting.
Duff Conacher, the group’s founding director, says later election dates could help raise voter turnout.
“There is no reason to have an election so early in the fall in these four provinces, as it is very unlikely that severe weather would significantly disrupt a later election date,” he said.
Conacher urged the provinces to recall their legislatures to quickly pass legislation to change the dates.
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dude or dudette; u must live in beautiful stjohns avalon; but in labrador; i suppose u ve heard of it; and west coast and northern pen; they are other areas of the province in case u r wondering we have winter; snow? it snows in late oct and snows and snows in november; in lab and rest of the island; weather can be nasty off the beautiful avalon; hard enough now to get people of any age to vote; can u say federal election? was 50 per cent of so who voted; orange crush are u joking; young people; yes some are involved; and of course with liberals especially they only need bus load to throw up front in photo op; like brian tobin used to; and people think young teens and 20 something vote; u r sadly mistaken; plus with advance ballots now; liberals can bring u right to poll clerk who is also usually liberal supporter and they can make sure u vote; and especially this corrupt special ballot voting which workers wicked good for liberals; and really good for them with old senior people; senile the kinda of voters liberals like; young people usually smarter and tell these liberal vote machine catchers to go jump in the lake; especially when liberal special ballot people got their ballots fillled out for old people where u have only gotta sign and hand them open envelope so they can make sure u voted liberal; and if they didnt they can then tear up special ballot and try to get new one or usually they just tear up special ballot and toss it in the garbage; without voters knowledge...