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The application must include the last residential address of the applicant before departing Canada, and proof of identity. [2] Once the application is approved, the elector will be added to the International Register of Electors and become eligible to vote for elections in the electoral district of their last Canadian address. [4]
In Canada, the National Register of Electors is a continuously updated permanent database of eligible electors for federal elections in Canada maintained by Elections Canada. In the 1990s Canada adopted an opt-in process, by which voters mark their consent to be added the national register on their annual income tax returns .
There is no electronic or online voting in Canadian federal elections. Paper ballots are hand-counted. For national elections, there is a uniform set of standards for voting. This governing law is the Canada Elections Act. The Act is c. 9, assented to (made law) 31 May 2000. It has been amended several times since 2000.
The Canada Elections Act permits Elections Canada to synchronize the data in the National Register of Electors with information obtained from external parties. These include federal agencies and Crown corporations including the Canada Revenue Agency , Canada Post (via the National Change of Address service), and Citizenship and Immigration Canada .
The Parliament of Canada has two chambers: the House of Commons has 338 members, elected for a maximum four-year term in single-seat electoral districts through first-past-the-post voting, and the Senate has 105 members appointed by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister.
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Most electors are required to apply for a postal vote, although some may receive one by default. In some elections postal voting is the only voting method allowed and is referred to as all-postal voting. With the exception of those elections, postal votes constitute a form of early voting and may be considered an absentee ballot.
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