Students can either register to vote in Kingston or they can actually choose to vote in their home ridings by special ballot. Normally, they would have to go downtown to the returning office at 366 King Street East (Suite 300) to do this, but on these three days they only have to go to the JDUC.
Voting by SPECIAL BALLOT means that the students can vote (in advance) in their home ridings. They can choose to do this, or they can choose to vote in the Kingston riding. If they choose the latter option, it is highly advisable that they still show up in the JDUC to get their names on the voter registry. It will save them major time on voting day because they won’t have to stand in the registration line up. It will also give them the correct address of their polling station.
To register or vote by special ballot, students need to bring ID that proves who they are and proves that they have an address in the electoral district they are voting for. If they have a driver’s license that shows both their photo and the appropriate address, then that is the only piece of ID they need.
However, if the address on their photo ID is not the same as the electoral district they want to vote in, then they can also bring a separate document that proves their address within that electoral district (this is most likely the case for the majority of students who may want to vote in the Kingston and the Islands riding). For example: if they are voting in Kingston, they need photo ID and they also need some other document that has both their name and their Kingston address on it. A lease, a phone bill, a Queen’s transcript, a credit card bill or a paycheck are all acceptable documents so long as they have both the name and the address on it.
