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Table of Contents
Supplies
Getting Ready
- Get ready the night before
- Set up the registration desk
- What should be on my desk to serve electors?
During Voting Hours
Situations with ID
- Eligibility
- Acceptable ID
- ID shows a mailing address
- ID is a letter confirming where the elector lives
- ID for electors at long term care or retirement facilities
- Elector's face is covered
- Someone refuses to make a declaration
After Voting Hours
Helping Electors
- I think the elector might need help
- Elector has a disability
- Service animals
- Tools for electors who need extra help
- Elector wants to be served in French
- The elector wants help from an interpreter
- Elector wants help to mark a ballot
Other Key Information
- Breaks and lunches
- Cell phones in the polling place
- Candidates' representatives
- Visitors
- Auditors
- Feedback, concerns or complaints
- Traffic or lineups
- Suspicious activities
- Workplace harassment and violence
References
If you are facing a situation that isn't described in this guidebook, or you need additional help, see your CPS.
Colour conventions followed in this manual
- RO Returning Officer
- CPS Central Poll Supervisor
- DRO Deputy Returning Officer
- RegO Registration Officer
- IO Information Officer
Important information
Text version of "Important information"
This page has a number of fields for the poll worker to write out their polling station information during training. There are fields for the following:
- Electoral district name and number
- RO office address
- Advance polling days
- Voting hours on advance polling days from 9am-9pm
- First day of revision, which is for by-elections only
- Emergency phone numbers
- Ro name and phone number
- Election day Monday
- Voting hours on election day
- Time to arrive at the polling place