3.6 million Canadian voted in the Advanced Polls over 4 days. That’s an increase of 71% compared to 2011.

According to Elections Canada and the lawyers who argued for the government and against the Council of Canadians and Canadian Federation of Students in their Charter Challenge in the Fair Elections Act case, if you are homeless, no worries, you can still vote in this federal election.

Alright, seeing as I had to walk a friend through this tonight and it was less straightforward than I expected, I’m going to show you how to find your polling station for election day. If you got a voter information card, this is probably pretty easy, but you might want to check the website anyway, so here we go.

When you go to Elections Canada Home, right now it looks like this:

I’ve put a big red box around the thing you want to pay attention to. Yeah there’s a postal code in there. No, it’s not mine. You want to put your postal code in this box, and click go. That’ll bring you to a page that looks like this:

This was not what I expected to see. Where’s the polling location? My friend and I spent a few minutes trying to sort this out, but the picture above already has the answer for you. Click on the link I’ve surrounded with a red box, and you get this:

Some resources to prepare you for October 19:

- Pollenize Platform Breakdown

- CBC’s Vote Compass

If you don’t choose, other will choose for you.

Can you imagine your dad choosing your Tinder dates for you?

CAN YOU IMAGINE THEM VOTING FOR YOU?!

Vote savvy is a great organization that is engaging youth across the country; challenging them to learn, choose and vote Savvy. They have a website with videos, a voting survey and resources to organize voting actions. you can find their website here.

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