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Most citizens are already registered to vote.
From the Elections Canada website:
"The vast majority of electors are registered in the National
Register of Electors, which is used to produce the preliminary voters lists
for federal elections, by-elections and referendums. If you voted in the last
general election, you may be registered to vote at the address where you lived
at that time. Elections Canada updates the Register from a number of sources, so
if you have moved since then, your address change may also
have been registered."
If you are already registered, you will receive a voter's card which bears your name
and the location of the poll you are to vote at. Just bring in the card to the polling
station to cast your vote.
Students and others away from their home district.
Students at Queen's University, St. Lawrence College, and others for whom Kingston and The Islands
is not their home electoral district, they can vote in either their home district or in Kingston.
If they want to vote in their home district they do it by a special ballot which
can be mailed or faxed to them by elections Canada
(http://www.elections.ca or 1 800 463-6868)
or they can visit the Kingston office of Elections Canada
at 859 Princess Street (Westgate Square) and fill out the forms there. They are open every day.
Students Can Vote in Kingston! If electors away from their home district
want to vote in Kingston and the Islands, they need to make this their place of ordinary residence.
To do this they can take two pieces of id (ie birth certificate and photo id)
into the Kingston Office of Elections Canada. Or if they are already on the electors list,
they can take 2 pieces of id such as bills showing their Kingston address to
any poll on election day and change their place of ordinary residence that way.
Elections Canada automatically updates their list from drivers licenses,
so if their driver's license address is switched to Kingston,
then they are already set up to vote here.
For more information about student voting you might find this link helpful:
Elections Canada - Student Voting: http://www.elections.ca/content_youth.asp?section=yth&document=index&lang=e&textonly=false
Other Voting Questions?
Elections Canada Frequently Asked Questions:
http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=faq&document=faqvoting&lang=e&textonly=false
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