Increasing tally of early voters adding new dimension to campaign calculus

Advance voting jumped as much as 19.5 per cent this election, and use of special ballots, the majority of which are filled out ahead of election day, increased by roughly 59.4 per cent.
An Elections Canada regular polling station in Ottawa, pictured on Sept. 20.
Election over election, Canadians are increasingly locking in their votes ahead of election day—whether at advance polls or by special ballot—and this creeping shift in voter behaviour hasn’t gone unnoticed by political parties, adding a new dimension to campaign calculus, say strategists. Ad...

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