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Voter registration
Online registration has now closed. The deadline to use Voter Registration to update or add your information to the voters list was August 24. Update or add your information in person when you go to vote.
To register and vote in this by-election, you must be:
- 18 years of age or older on election day; and
- a Canadian citizen; and
- a resident of Hamilton East—Stoney Creek or Scarborough Southwest or York—Simcoe
ID required:
- Upload one piece of ID showing both your name and home address.
Alternatively, you can complete a paper application form.
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Upload one piece of ID showing both your name and home address in one of the current by-election electoral districts.
Accepted ID includes most documents issued by the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario or a municipality in Ontario.
Examples of accepted ID to update, add or remove your information from the voters list:
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Upload two pieces of ID to change your legal name, including for the use of a spouse or partner’s name:
- A marriage certificate or a change of name certificate issued by a provincial/territorial registrar; AND
- one piece of ID showing your current name and home address;
OR
- one piece of ID showing your previous name and home address; AND
- one piece of ID showing your current name and home address.
Accepted ID includes most documents issued by the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario or a municipality in Ontario.
Examples of accepted ID to update, add or remove your information from the voters list:
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Use Voter Registration to remove the information of a deceased person. You must upload documentation showing proof of death.
Alternatively, complete a paper application form.
Please contact us if you have any questions.
Examples of documents showing proof of death:
- Burial or death certificate
- Obituary from a newspaper
- Memorandum of notification of death issued by the Chief of the National Defence Staff
- Statement of Verification of Death from the Department of Veterans Affairs
- Notarial copy of Letters of Probate
- Official notification from the Public Trustee
- Document/receipt issued by a cemetery/crematorium in Ontario that proves burial or cremation
- Life or group insurance claim along with a statement signed by a medical doctor
- Statement from a medical doctor, coroner or funeral director
- Program or notice from a funeral ceremony
- Registration of Death
- Medical Certification of Death
- Any other applicable document from the Government of Canada, a Canadian province or territory, a municipality in Canada, or from its agency proving a person’s death