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The High Road Design, Sackville N.B. Transit Service by Massimo Vignelli, 2023

Confusion reigned at Sackville’s provincial election polling station yesterday afternoon, as student after student left the poll saying they couldn’t vote.

Some students say they were turned away, others say they were told if they signed a declaration saying they had been “ordinarily resident” in New Brunswick for the past 40 days, they would be committing voting fraud.

Despite phone calls from the province’s Chief Electoral Officer Kim Poffenroth at about 1:30pm to clarify eligibility rules, the uncertainty continued into the evening.

CHMA spoke to Mount Allison Students’ Union VP External Sydney Thorburn outside the polling station late yesterday afternoon:

“We’ve gotten a lot of complaints from students, or just notices from students, that they’ve been turned away from voting today,” said Thorburn.

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