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Canada's elections - October 14
Lumière:
Well, Tuesday is here at last.
I am heading to the polls after work today.
Happy Voting! 8)
Sheriff Roland:
Did mine about 3 hours ago ....
Passed on the faux liberal in my riding and drew an X in the NDP box.
The other two candidates are of no consequence in these parts.
Lumière:
Done as well.
Say, Roland, do you get the election results before we do? (what with the time difference and all...) :)
Lumière:
I checked on the CBC website just as I posted my last comment:
Some voters to get results earlier than others due to Elections Act
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 | 4:14 PM ET
While Newfoundlanders will be able to view the results of their local elections at 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday, it will be three hours before residents of British Columbia and the Yukon will have access to those results, thanks to the Canada Elections Act.
The discrepancy in the timing of the release of election results is due to Section 329 of the act, which prevents the transmission of election results in one electoral district where polls have closed to another electoral district where the polls are still open.
Polls in Newfoundland close at 7 p.m. ET, whereas those in the Yukon and British Columbia close at 10 p.m. ET.
"Elections Canada wishes to make sure the voter who has not yet cast their ballot is not influenced by a voter who has already cast their ballot," Grace Lake, spokesperson for Elections Canada in Toronto, told CBCnews.ca on Tuesday.
It was partly due to these regulations that Elections Canada has started polling at different times across the country, she said.
CBCnews.ca begins coverage of the election results at 10 p.m. ET.
Regional CBC-TV broadcasts, meanwhile, will begin coverage of election results 30 minutes before local polls close.
CBC Newsworld will have live coverage of the election results starting at 9 p.m. ET.
British Columbia and the Yukon will experience a blackout between 6:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. PT in compliance with the Canada Elections Act.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/story/2008/10/14/broadcast-regs.html
Sheriff Roland:
The polls here were open between 9:30 am and 9:30 pm.
I thought that would mean the polls would be open at dif'rent times in dif'rent regions (ie, 10:30 in the maritimes, 8:30 in the prairies 7:30 in Alberta and 6:30 in BC) in order to have all polls open & close simultaneously. In this day of instant information off the net, I doubt people who's polls stay open later are not able to find out the results from other regions before theirs close, T.V. airwaves blackouts or not.
Didn't polls use to close at 8:00 pm?
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