Advance poll
72. (1) The clerk shall hold an advance poll in accordance with this section on the Saturday nine days before polling day and on the Wednesday immediately before polling day for the purpose of receiving votes of electors who expect to be unable to vote on polling day in the polling subdivision for which their names appear on the polling lists or who are entitled to vote either under a certificate issued by the clerk under section 36 or who become entitled to vote under section 61. Additional advance poll (2) The council of a municipality may by by-law passed before nomination day provide for the holding by the clerk of additional advance polls for the same purpose as provided in subsection (1). When poll to be open (3) The advance poll shall be open from 10 o’clock in the forenoon until 8 o’clock in the afternoon on each day it is held and polling shall be held so far as possible in the same manner as polling at a regular election. Polling places (4) The clerk shall provide as many polling places for an advance poll as he or she considers necessary, shall select locations that allow easy access to persons who have a physical disability or a mobility impairment and shall appoint a deputy returning officer and poll clerk for each polling place. List of persons voting (5) Immediately after the close of the advance poll, the deputy returning officer shall deliver to the clerk a list of the names of all persons who have voted showing in each case the number of the polling subdivisions in which the elector is entered on the polling list and the clerk shall, at the request of any candidate, give him or her a copy of the list of names of all persons who have voted at the advance poll. Duties of clerk on receiving list (6) Upon receiving the list mentioned in subsection (5), the clerk shall, (a) make an entry in the polling list to be supplied to each deputy returning officer on polling day opposite the name of each elector whose name appears on such list and whose vote has been received at an advance poll, showing that such elector has voted; or (b) make a certificate in the prescribed form for each polling subdivision, showing the name and address of each elector listed on the polling list for such polling subdivision who has voted at an advance poll, and shall furnish such certificate before the opening of the poll on polling day to the deputy returning officer of the polling subdivision, and the deputy returning officer shall before opening the poll make an entry in the polling list supplied to him or her, opposite the name of each elector whose name appears on the certificate, showing that such elector has voted. Sealing of box (7) Forthwith after the close of the advance poll on each day it is held, the deputy returning officer and any candidate or scrutineer present who desires to do so shall affix his or her seal to the ballot box in such a manner that it cannot be opened or any ballots be deposited in it without breaking the seals and the deputy returning officer shall forthwith deliver it, along with all other election documents used at the poll, personally to the clerk for safekeeping. Opening of ballot boxes for advance poll (8) On the regular polling day for an election, after the close of polling, the deputy returning officer shall, in the presence of the poll clerk and such candidates for office at the election or their scrutineers as are present at the hour fixed for the closing of the poll, open the ballot boxes for the advance poll, count the votes and perform all other duties required of deputy returning officers by this Act. R.S.O. 1990, c.M.53, s.72. Proxy Voting