Item - 2016.EX13.24

Tracking Status

  • City Council adopted this item on March 31 and April 1, 2016 with amendments.
  • This item was considered by the Executive Committee on March 9, 2016 and adopted without amendment. It will be considered by City Council on March 31 and April 1, 2016.

EX13.24 - Advance Voting Days

Decision Type:
ACTION
Status:
Amended
Wards:
All

City Council Decision

City Council on March 31 and April 1, 2016, adopted the following:

 

1.  City Council request the City Clerk to prepare for additional advance voting days during the 2018 municipal election.

 

2.  City Council request the City Clerk to examine including an advance poll during the Thanksgiving long weekend (Saturday, October 6, 2018 to Monday, October 8, 2018) to allow for returning college and university students to vote.

Background Information (Committee)

(February 4, 2016) Letter from Councillor Paul Ainslie on Advance Voting Days
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2016/ex/bgrd/backgroundfile-90804.pdf

Motions (City Council)

1 - Motion to Amend Item (Additional) moved by Councillor Sarah Doucette (Carried)

That City Council request the City Clerk to examine including an advance poll during the Thanksgiving long weekend (Saturday, October 6, 2018 to Monday, October 8, 2018) to allow for returning college and university students to vote.


Motion to Adopt Item as Amended (Carried)

EX13.24 - Advance Voting Days

Decision Type:
ACTION
Status:
Adopted
Wards:
All

Committee Recommendations

The Executive Committee recommends that:

 

1.  City Council request the City Clerk to prepare for additional advance voting days during the 2018 municipal election.

Origin

(February 4, 2016) Letter from Councillor Paul Ainslie

Summary

As City council has the authority to set advanced voting days before every general municipal election. It would be beneficial to prepare for additional advanced voting days during the 2018 municipal election.

 

During the 2014 municipal election advanced voting days were set from Tuesday, October 14, 2014 to Sunday, October 19, 2014, 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. with one voting place in each of the City's 44 wards, and City Hall on weekdays where any voter cast a ballot regardless of where they lived in the City. Voter turnout did increase by 4.12 percent.

 

The Municipal Election - voter turnout statistics posted on our City of Toronto Website at http://www.toronto.ca/311/knowledgebase/85/101000040385.html:

 

2014 Municipal Election
# of eligible electors - 1,813,915
3 who voted - 991,754 or 54.67 percent

2010 Municipal Election:
# of eligible electors - 1,637, 310
# who voted - 827,723 or 50.55 percent

2006 Municipal Election:
# of eligible electors - 1, 521, 121
# who voted - 597,754 or 39.3 percent

2003 Municipal Election:
# of eligible electors - 1,825,139
# who voted = 699,492 or 38.33 percent

 

Background Information

(February 4, 2016) Letter from Councillor Paul Ainslie on Advance Voting Days
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2016/ex/bgrd/backgroundfile-90804.pdf

Speakers

Miroslav Glavic

Motions

1 - Motion to Adopt Item moved by Mayor John Tory (Carried)
Source: Toronto City Clerk at www.toronto.ca/council