No voting options left for people exposed to COVID-19 in N.W.T. this week
CBC
People planning to vote on Election Day won't be able to cast their ballots if they're isolating.
With advance polls now closed and the deadline to apply for mail-in ballots passed, Elections Canada says there's no recourse for voters who get exposed to COVID-19 this week. Anyone who is isolating will not be welcome at polling stations.
"If somebody is in isolation, then they're in isolation for safety reasons and they need to remain (there)," said Leanne Tait, Election Canada's returning officer for the Northwest Territories.
Tait said well before the writ dropped, Elections Canada was looking to expand how people could vote. Ultimately, though, Tait said it was up to Parliament to let Elections Canada offer other methods of voting.
Elections Canada is guided by the Canada Elections Act, she said, and can't act outside the deadlines and processes within that act.
"They are entrenched in law. We don't have the ability, without there being changes made in Parliament, for us to be able to offer alternate ways of voting once the advance polls have closed," she said.
"It's not a matter of having the will, it's a matter of having the way."
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