{"id":8577,"date":"2025-04-17T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8577"},"modified":"2025-04-17T17:25:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T20:25:56","slug":"no-voter-information-card-no-problem-says-election-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/04\/17\/no-voter-information-card-no-problem-says-election-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"No voter information card? No problem, says Election Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You don’t need your voter information card from Elections Canada to vote in the April 28 federal election. (Elections Canada)<\/p><\/div>\n

If you haven\u2019t received your voter information card yet for the April 28 federal election, Elections Canada says not to worry.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can still vote without it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Elections Canada<\/a> told QCCR there have been delays in getting the cards to some parts of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Liverpool post office hadn\u2019t begun receiving the cards for its customers until the middle of this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The cards contain information on where and when you can vote, details about your polling station and your name and address.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elections Canada spokeswoman Francoise Enguehard says you don\u2019t need the voter information card to cast your ballot.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is important for people to know is that you do not need a voter information card to vote,” she said in an interview. “And you don\u2019t need it either to verify where you have to vote.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe voter information card can serve as one ID to vote. But it doesn\u2019t really change the way people have to prove their identity and they have to prove their address. So if people have a driver\u2019s licence or they have a municipal or provincial ID, as civil servants would, then they can use that. And it you don\u2019t have it, you need two things both with your name and one that proves your address.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To prove your civic address, you can also use a property tax bill, a statement from your house or tenant insurance or a utility bill that contains your physical address.<\/p>\n

You can also have somebody else vouch for your identity at your polling station.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the honors system. You say you are who you are and where you live. But the person must be registered at the same polling station and and the person can only vouch for one individual.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Enguehard said she doesn\u2019t know the reason for the delay in Liverpool.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe send 28 million cards to electors all across the country. Sometimes it can happen that there is a delay in getting a polling location. So until you have the polling location, you cannot print the voter information card. Sometimes out of the 28 million, a few of the cards, the information is incorrect and new voter information cards have to be issued. So all of that can cause delays.”<\/span><\/p>\n

She said those who haven\u2019t yet received a voter information card should be getting one in the next few days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, you can use the \u201cMy voter information\u201d section on the Elections Canada homepage at elections.ca<\/a> or call 1-800-463-6868 to make sure you\u2019re registered to vote.<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to the audio version of this story below<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/voterinfocardelxnapr1725.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you haven\u2019t received your voter information card yet for the April 28 federal election, Elections Canada says not to worry. You can still vote without it.\u00a0 Elections Canada told QCCR there have been delays in getting the cards to some parts of the country. The Liverpool post office hadn\u2019t begun receiving the cards for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[316,774,385,3037,39,501,49,3038,3039,2649,1577],"class_list":["post-8577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-election","tag-elections-canada","tag-federal-election","tag-francoise-enguehard","tag-liverpool","tag-post-office","tag-queens-county","tag-voter-information-card","tag-voter-registration","tag-voters","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8582,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577\/revisions\/8582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}