Application to enter name in or delete name from list or correct information
30. (1) A person whose name has not been included in the preliminary list for a polling subdivision in a municipality or whose name has been included therein but the information relating to the person set out therein is incorrect or whose name has been included therein as a non-resident and who is qualified to be an elector in more than one ward in the municipality may apply to the clerk or assistant revising officer of the municipality on or before the last day for filing applications for revision of the list to have the person’s name included on the list or to have such information corrected, including having his or her name deleted from any list where it is incorrectly included, or to have his or her name deleted from the list and to have it entered in the list of another ward in which the person or the person’s spouse is the owner or tenant of land. Application and declaration (2) Every person applying under this section shall sign an application in the prescribed form in which all the information shall be sufficiently filled in, either by the applicant personally or by the clerk or assistant revising officer at the applicant’s request, and shall declare that he or she understands the effect of the statements in the application and that the person is an elector entitled to have his or her name included on the list or to have the list corrected pursuant to his or her request before the clerk or assistant revising officer enters his or her name on the list or corrects the preliminary list, as the case may be. Filing (3) An application made under this section and duly signed by the applicant may be filed by the applicant in person or by mail or by his or her agent in person. Where application filed by agent (4) An application filed by the agent of the applicant shall be signed by both the applicant and the agent and, upon the request of the clerk, the agent shall provide proof satisfactory to the clerk of the identity of the agent. Interpreter (5) When the language of an applicant under this section is not understood by the clerk or assistant revising officer, an interpreter provided by the applicant may be sworn and may act, but in the event of inability to secure an interpreter, the application shall be refused. Decision to amend list (6) If it appears to the clerk or assistant revising officer that an applicant under this section understands the effect of the statements in the application and that the applicant is an elector whose name should be included in the polling list or that the amendment thereof that the applicant requests should be made, the clerk or assistant revising officer shall certify accordingly by signing the application. Refusal to amend list (7) If, in the opinion of the clerk or assistant revising officer, the statements made by an applicant in an application under this section do not show that the applicant is an elector entitled to have his or her name included in the polling list or to have the list amended as requested, the clerk or assistant revising officer shall inform the applicant that the application is refused, stating the reasons for such refusal, which reasons he or she shall endorse on the application form. R.S.O. 1990, c.M.53, s.30.