Be prepared for voting to take longer than usual on Monday, Canadians warned
CBC
Voting will likely take longer than expected on Monday in the Sept. 20 federal election, an expert is warning Canadians less than a week before they go to the polls.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the electoral process more complicated, according to John Beebe, director of the democratic engagement exchange in the faculty of arts at Ryerson University.
"We should all expect that things may look a little different," Beebe said on Tuesday.
Beebe said it took the average voter about seven minutes to cast a ballot in the 2019 federal election. Voting used to be a relatively simple process in Canada, he added.
"This time, it's probably going to take a bit longer and I think it's going to be highly variable by location," Beebe said. "Some places, it continues to be super easy. And some places are seeing much longer lines."
In some ridings, enough polling station workers may have been hired and there may be better access to polling locations. That might not be the case in other ridings, he said.
Elections Canada has told CBC News that 11 Greater Toronto Area ridings will see fewer than half the number of polling stations open on election day this year than they did in 2019 because the agency has had difficulties finding sites with room for voters to physically distance.
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