The deadline to return electoral reform referendum voting packages is today at 4:30 p.m. (Facebook/ElectionsBC)
If you have not yet mailed in your ballot for the provincial referendum on electoral reform, you’ve only got a few hours left to do so.
Today is the last day for voters to either keep the First Past the Post voting system or adopt Proportional Representation, and completed voting packages must be returned in person at a Referendum Service Office or Service BC Centre by 4:30 p.m.
For voters in Osoyoos, the closest Service BC Centre is in Oliver, located at 583 Fairview Road and open until 4:30 p.m.
As of this morning, 1,356,000 voting packages are estimated to have been received by Elections BC, which reflects returns from approximately 41 per cent of registered voters.
In the Boundary-Similkameen district, 14,301 ballot packages have been screened by Elections BC, a return from 40.4 per cent of eligible voters.
Elections BC will continue to update estimated returns next week as ballots received at in-person drop-off locations by the deadline are send to Elections BC in Victoria.
Referendum results will be reported when all ballots have been tabulated, which is expected to take several weeks.
Can’t wait to see the look on Horgan and Weaver’s faces when they have to announce the result that FPTP is going to stay. Although I have a feeling it’s going to be the Lower-Mainland and Southern Vancouver Island vs. everyone else.
Hopefully most of those on the coast were too busy going nowhere fast to cast their ballots.
unless at least 51 percent of ballots are returned and counted the whole exercise should be put on hold.