Acts and Regulations

E-3 - Elections Act

Section 87.53
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Additional polls - treatment centres and hospitals
87.53(1)Before the first day of advance polls, if there are any treatment centres in an electoral district, the returning officer, in consultation with the administrator of or person appointed by each centre, shall determine if an additional poll is required to take the vote of the residents or patients of the centre and, if it is required, shall fix the day, time and place for holding the additional poll at the centre.
87.53(2)When an additional poll is held in a treatment centre where residents or patients are unable to move about on their own, the special voting officers shall do the following:
(a) if appropriate, set up a polling station in a common area of the centre to take the vote of electors who are able to attend the polling station; and
(b) carry the ballot box, ballot papers and other necessary documents from room to room in the centre to take the vote of the remaining electors who wish to vote.
87.53(3)Despite section 72, only the following persons may accompany a polling station as it moves from room to room in a treatment centre:
(a) the special voting officers;
(b) the returning officer or an election clerk;
(c) a staff member of the centre; and
(d) a candidate, his or her official agent and a scrutineer.
87.53(4)If, in the opinion of the administrator or person appointed by the treatment centre, it is considered advisable to do so, the special voting officers may limit those present at a polling station to the following persons:
(a) the special voting officers;
(b) the returning officer or an election clerk; and
(c) a staff member of the centre.
87.53(5)On the close of an additional poll at a treatment centre, the administrator of or person appointed by the centre shall sign a statement certifying that all the electors who are a resident or a patient of the centre, who were present at the time fixed for the additional poll and who wished to vote were given an opportunity to vote.
87.53(6)A special voting officer shall sign the statement referred to in subsection (5) after it has been signed by the administrator of or person appointed by the treatment centre.
87.53(7)When an additional poll is to be held under this section, the returning officer shall do the following:
(a) notify all candidates for the electoral district of the day, time and place for holding the additional poll; and
(b) take all reasonable steps to notify residents or patients of the treatment centre of the day, time and place for holding the additional poll.
87.53(8)When an additional poll is held under this section, the special ballot papers used shall be the special ballot papers used for the electoral district in which the treatment centre is located.
87.53(9)An elector who is temporarily resident in a treatment centre at the time of an election may vote in the electoral district in which he or she is ordinarily resident by applying for a special ballot paper under section 87.6.
2010, c.6, s.94