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Section 329 of the Canada Elections Act was designed to prevent the transmission of any election results until polls were closed nationwide. Section 329 stated that: "No person shall transmit the result or purported result of the vote in an electoral district to the public in another electoral district before the close of all of the polling stations in that other electoral district."
The Keeping Canada’s Economy & Jobs Growing Act, introduced in October 2011, triggered a phase-out of the per-vote subsidy from 2012-2015. [27] The amount paid out to parties decreased from approximately $2 per vote in 2012 to approximately $0.50 per vote in 2015, the final year of the subsidy. [28] Contribution limits were increased in 2014.
Under the Canada Elections Act, it is an offence to willfully prevent, or endeavour to prevent, an elector from voting in an election. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] On Election Day, May 2, 2011, reports of voter suppression, mostly centred on the riding of Guelph , led to the discovery that a computer in the Guelph campaign office had possibly been used to make ...
Milwaukee certified the election results on November 11, almost a week after Election Day. In a statement seen on Facebook, the city’s election commission clarified these were legal absentee ...
Election officials participate in a process called "canvassing" to ensure that every vote is counted in the final tally, including reviewing ballots and confirming the total number of votes cast.
[6] [7] The 2021 election set a new record for the lowest vote share for a party that would go on to form a single-party minority government. The Liberals won 32.6 per cent of the popular vote, while losing the popular vote to the Conservatives as they did in 2019. [8]
[7] [8] [9] Votes obtained by individual PPC candidates were larger than the margin of victory in 21 ridings, where the Conservative candidate was in second place (12 in Ontario, five in BC, two in Alberta, one in Quebec and one in Newfoundland). Of those seats, 14 went to the Liberals, six to the NDP, and one to the Bloc.
Section 482(b), which finds anyone who "induces a person to vote or refrain from voting or to vote or refrain from voting for a particular candidate at an election" guilty of intimidation of the electoral process. Anyone convicted under s. 482(b) faces, on a summary conviction, a maximum $2,000 fine, or a maximum of one year in prison, or both.