File #: 21-808    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Action Report Status: Carried
File created: 10/20/2021 In control: Capital Regional District Board
On agenda: 10/27/2021 Final action: 10/27/2021
Title: Temporary Modifications to Election Procedures for Assent Voting (COVID-19) - Pender Islands Health Care Centre Referendum
Attachments: 1. Staff Report: Modifications to Election Proc. for Pender Hlth. Care Referendum, 2. Appendix A: Bylaw 3543 Consolidated, 3. Appendix B: Excerpts from Local Government Act, 4. Appendix C: Elections in Special Circumstances (COVID-19) Regulation

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Temporary Modifications to Election Procedures for Assent Voting (COVID-19) - Pender Islands Health Care Centre Referendum

 

Recommendation

That the election procedures for the Pender Islands Health Care Centre Referendum be modified as follows:

1.                     That sections 15.2 and 16.2(a)(i) of Bylaw 3543, “Capital Regional District Election and Voting Procedures Bylaw, 2008” be waived in order to permit mail ballot voting to all eligible electors;

2.                     That section 125(1)(b) of the Local Government Act be read as though it provided that the person must, as directed by an election official, comply with section 125(1)(b) as written, or make an oral declaration of the facts set out in that section, in which case the election official must make a record that the person made an oral declaration; and

3.                     That section 125(1)(c) of the Local Government Act be read as though it provided that the person must, as directed by an election official, comply with section 125(1)(c) as written, or make an oral declaration of the facts set out in that section, in which case the election official must make a record that the person made an oral declaration and of the facts declared.

(NWA)