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Voter registration
Use Voter Registration to check, update or add your information to the voters list by August 24 to receive a voter information card by mail.
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