Advance Polling Up, Online Voting Down Head of October 24th Election

Fewer Chatham-Kent residents have taken advance of early voting opportunities head of next Monday’s municipal election.

2857 people cast their ballot at one of the advance poll locations between October 13^th and the 15^th. That’s up from 2291 who voted in advance polls in the 2018 election.

Online voting took a dip, however. In 2018, 9787 people cast their ballots online. Online voting, which was open from October 3^rd to the 16^th this year, saw the number of votes falling to 7366.

In all just under 13% of the 80,312 registered voters have cast a ballot head of the October 24^th election.

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