Quebec’s chief electoral officer says he is making a special decision to allow municipalities to deliver election-related documents by means other than direct delivery to voters’ doors for the 2025 municipal general election.<\/p>\n
Election czar Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Blanchet says in a statement the decision is necessary given the disruption to postal services caused by the strike by Canada Post workers.<\/p>\n
Blanchet says the postal service is key to the electoral process and he urged voters to be understanding given the circumstances.<\/p>\n
\u00c9lections Qu\u00e9bec says options could include using a different delivery method or volunteers to deliver two all-important documents: the notice of registration on the list of electors and the reminder card that citizens are accustomed to receiving.<\/p>\n
Blanchet says his decision wouldn’t prevent municipalities from delivering their documents by mail if the strike ends quickly and postal services resume.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Municipal Affairs Minister Genevi\u00e8ve Guilbault was joined by the heads of municipal federations in urging the federal government and the Canada Post union to quickly find a solution to the strike, which began on Sept. 25.<\/p>\n
The province’s municipal election period began on Sept. 19 and Quebecers across the province will vote on Nov. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quebec’s chief electoral officer says he is making a special decision to allow municipalities to deliver election-related documents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-186193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}