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If you’re in #Ontario make sure you register to vote or you won’t get your voters card in the mail apparently.
F*ck off Doug Ford.
Edit: Multiple areas of the elections ON website say registered voters need to confirm to get their ballot. Unsure if it’s legit or if it’s poor marketing materials. I know it’s not Fords fault exactly, but I’m choosing to blame him. He called this snap election lol.
Edit 2: thanks to @CStamp we now know it’s poor marketing.
@erin Seems pretty clear to me that it is VOTER SUPPRESSION. No registration = NO card. Those cards are a reminder of when and where to vote, without one, you'll have to figure it out yourself.
@WhistlingStella @erin That's how it has always been. You're automatically registered to vote and your card goes to your last known address. They've now just made it super easy to update it if you've moved.
Your voter registration card also doubles as a proof of address if you need one. It's handy.
@mayintoronto @erin My notice says to "confirm, update or add your information". I have never been asked to "confirm" my information before and the notice is unclear as to whether "confirmation" is a prerequisite for "registration" or whether voting cards will be mailed as usual without "confirmation ". It is at best ambiguous and 16 days before the election, unnecessarily confusing.
@WhistlingStella @mayintoronto agree. The wording is confusing. This is from Elections Ontario.
@erin @mayintoronto it is unclear and I wouldn't put it past this government to try to suppress votes.
@WhistlingStella @erin I know the people who work at Elections Ontario (and who build their website), and I really can't imagine that they'd do this on purpose. They'd likely quit before they'll be a party to voter suppression like this.
Much more likely to be bad messaging.
@mayintoronto @erin I hope you're right! Perhaps they meant "review your registration information" I guess we'll see.
@WhistlingStella @erin @mayintoronto
In Ontario and Canada the current government has nothing to do with the operation of elections which are done by independent agencies. Voting suppression is not a thing here and one can get put on the list on voting day if their name is somehow omitted.
[Although federally for a short period of time under Harper Elections Canada was not allowed to do voting promotion]
@WhistlingStella @erin @mayintoronto
[Also in some elections rogue non-election official actors have tried to send voters to the wrong polling station or provided other false information[
@mayintoronto @WhistlingStella @erin The confirm part is NOT typical. We've always got our cards and were ready to go.
@CStamp @WhistlingStella @erin I'm pretty sure that anyone figuring out this workflow is just updating their databases as opposed to deleting it. You can see it from how the registration workflow is set up.
On the 14th, they send this to everyone on their database, including the ones that haven't been reconfirmed/updated.
Again, much more likely to just be bad messaging.
@mayintoronto @WhistlingStella @erin I hope so. If you go to the elections page, it also mentions confirming.
I wish there were a phone number on the thing that got sent out. The is 0 chance I would ever use the square thing and they should not expect everyone to use a cell phone and internet to do this. :(
@mayintoronto There is this on their website. I guess I'll email tomorrow. My voice is gone with all the coughing I've been doing. @WhistlingStella @erin