| Elector Qualifications (Provincial Elections) |
A person is qualified to vote in a provincial election if he or she:
is a Canadian citizen;
will be eighteen years of age on or before polling day;
has been or will have been ordinarily resident in the Province for 6 months immediately preceding the date of the election
will be ordinarily resident in the electoral district as of the date of the election.
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| Elector Qualifications (Municipal, and DEC Elections) |
A person is qualified to vote in a municipality, rural community, or school district election if he or she:
is a Canadian citizen;
will be eighteen years of age on or before polling day;
has been or will have been ordinarily resident in the Province for a period of at least 40 days immediately before the election;
will be ordinarily resident in the municipality, rural community, or school district at the date of the election.
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| Additions or Corrections to the Register of
Electors between elections |
An elector may visit any Service New Brunswick service centre to request his or her information be updated on the Register of Electors.
This opportunity is also offered to residents when they make changes to their address or legal name and wish to update their drivers
licence, for example. Service New Brunswick began to collect this information on August 1, 2007.
The information is collected and sent to Elections NB, where it a match attempt is made with the names and addresses found on the
Register of Electors. If the matching elector is found, the update is performed immediately.
If the name and address is not found on the Register of Electors, Elections NB will send the resident a certification form and a stamped
return envelope. Before a resident’s name may be added to the Register of Electors, section 20.8(1) of the
Elections Act requires
that a signed certification that the elector qualifications are met be received by Elections NB. When the certification is returned,
the elector will be added to the Register of Electors immediately.
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| Deletions from the Register of Electors between elections |
An elector may be removed from the Register of Electors between elections when Elections NB receives notification of an
elector's death from the Vital Statistics branch of Service New Brunswick.
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| List of Electors for an electoral event |
All of the additions, corrections, and deletions to the Register of Electors between elections are used to create the
Preliminary List of Electors used at the start of an electoral event.
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