Advance voting opens for Toronto's upcoming election
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Advance voting is now open for Torontonians who want to cast their ballot ahead of the city's Oct. 24 election.
The advance voting period began Friday and will run to Oct. 14, at 50 locations across the city. These locations will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day.
While some residents are opting to avoid the "crowd" by casting their ballots early, others have decided to wait.
Dan O'Brien wanted to "get out early and do what he needed to do," he said.
"I like to get ahead of the crowd that might be coming. I think it's important to get out and make your decision basically, and just get it done," O'Brien told CBC Toronto.
He said his candidate choice was influenced by several issues.
"For me it's about transportation, it's about affordable housing, it's about bike lanes. I think all those issues are quite important," he said.
"It's about what's happening in the parks. We've seen the last couple of years have been a bit challenging. So I voted for a candidate that I think that kind of speaks to all those issues."
Sandy Douglas also opted to vote in advance of election day. He said he can't help but notice "the lack of city service" in communities.
"[People] talk about garbage bins that are full and overflowing," he said.
"I live on Stafford Street … and the baseball diamond got done twice this year and yet the fees go up. There's a lack of service. I don't know if it's because of unemployment, I don't know if it's because people don't care, but it just seems to be a total lack of caring."
Douglas is encouraging other Toronto residents to vote.
"It's how you participate as a person in Ontario, in Canada, the free world. Voting is all a part of a right that we have, it's what we support," Douglas said.
"You can't just assume somebody else will do the task. You have to step up and do your part [and] voting is an example of that."
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