During their annual meeting members passed a bylaw allowing for electronic voting but defeated one to give the board the authority to replace preferential ballots with other voting systems
Grade 11 and 12 students can get paid to work on election day
Farmers will have the option to cast their votes in advance through a mail-in or electronic ballot or in person at the association’s annual meeting
More than 8,000 ballots were mailed out and just over 1,000 valid ones were counted for a voter turnout of almost 14 per cent
Members have the final say since the change requires a bylaw change, says MCGA president Ed Rempel
Rural residents can also vote by mail but post offices are scarcer too
Elections Canada’s online registration system is shutting some rural voters out
Three main policy areas political parties need to address
