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bjarvisElections eligibility information for Canadian ex-pats forwarded to me by the kind folks at the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC...
At home or away, Canadians have a say!
If you are eligible to vote in a federal electoral event, you can do it from virtually anywhere in the world. Follow this simple three-step process:
Check the voter eligibility criteria to make sure you can vote:
Get your special ballot (http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=ele&document=eligible&dir=39ge/ec78610&lang=e&textonly=false).
Then use the special ballot voting kit that Elections Canada will send you at the mailing address you provide.
Register early. Allow enough time for us to send a ballot to you, and for you to return it before the deadline. Your vote cannot be counted if it arrives late.
It's your responsibility to send in your registration form and then your ballot on time. The registration form must reach Elections Canada in Ottawa by 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 17, 2006. The earlier you send it, the better.
Your registration will be promptly processed, but you must allow enough time for a special ballot voting kit to reach you and for your ballot to travel back to Ottawa. The completed ballot must arrive at Elections Canada by 6:00 p.m., Ottawa time, on election day, Monday, January 23, 2006. By law, late ballots cannot be counted.
For more information, please consult this on-line guide:
http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=ele&document=index&dir=39ge/ec78610&lang=e)
At home or away, Canadians have a say!
If you are eligible to vote in a federal electoral event, you can do it from virtually anywhere in the world. Follow this simple three-step process:
Check the voter eligibility criteria to make sure you can vote:
- you must be a Canadian citizen and be 18 years of age or older on polling day.
- you may register to vote by special ballot using the form in this guide provided:
- your primary residence is in Canada but you expect to be outside your electoral district, either in Canada or elsewhere, on polling day and during the advance polls at an election or referendum;
or your primary residence has been outside Canada for less than five consecutive years since your last return to Canada (some exceptions apply), you resided in Canada at any time before applying for registration, and you intend to resume residence in Canada.
Get your special ballot (http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=ele&document=eligible&dir=39ge/ec78610&lang=e&textonly=false).
Then use the special ballot voting kit that Elections Canada will send you at the mailing address you provide.
Register early. Allow enough time for us to send a ballot to you, and for you to return it before the deadline. Your vote cannot be counted if it arrives late.
It's your responsibility to send in your registration form and then your ballot on time. The registration form must reach Elections Canada in Ottawa by 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 17, 2006. The earlier you send it, the better.
Your registration will be promptly processed, but you must allow enough time for a special ballot voting kit to reach you and for your ballot to travel back to Ottawa. The completed ballot must arrive at Elections Canada by 6:00 p.m., Ottawa time, on election day, Monday, January 23, 2006. By law, late ballots cannot be counted.
For more information, please consult this on-line guide:
http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=ele&document=index&dir=39ge/ec78610&lang=e)
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Date: 2005-12-09 09:49 pm (UTC)The form asks for an estimated date of return, but there's nothing to imply that it has to be a date in the near future, or that you'll be held to it. And plans change, right? If you said that you might return in 2009, and then found a good reason to change your mind between now and then, who could argue with that? Of course you're still stuck with that gone-more-than-5-years thing, as am I.