How Do I Vote From Overseas?

If you qualify to vote, you can do it, by mail, from virtually anywhere in the world.

Follow this simple, three-step process:

1. Check if you are eligible to vote
2. Register for a special ballot. The link below will show you how
3. Use the voting kit that Elections Canada will send you at the address you provide to vote by mail.

Warning from Elections Canada: Plan to vote early. Elections Canada won't be able to get a ballot to voters if you apply too late; and, by law, your vote cannot be counted if it arrives after the deadline.

Click here for more information.

Elections Canada estimates there are about 200,000 "snowbirds" who are planning to escape the Canadian winter south of the border. They would like to see all of them voting.

Canada's chief electoral officer, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, says an ad campaign will be launched in newspapers in the American states and the parts of Mexico most frequented by Canadian snowbirds to tell people how to vote by mail.

Elections Canada is also putting up posters at airports, passport offices and at Canadian Automobile Association locations, all aimed at snowbirds.

During the last election, held in June, 2004, about 50,000 ballots were cast by mail.

Source: Elections Canada