Canada Elections Act

Marginal note:Presence of representatives

• 136 (1) A candidate or the candidate’s official agent may authorize any number of representatives of the candidate to be present at a polling station, but only two of each candidate’s representatives may be present at any time.

• Marginal note:Representatives may absent themselves from poll

  (2) A representative of a candidate, or an elector described in paragraph 135(1)(d), may leave a polling station at any time and return at any time before the counting of the votes begins and is not required to produce a new written authorization from the candidate or official agent, or a copy of one, or to make another solemn declaration.

• Marginal note:Moving between polling stations

  (2.1) Despite subsection (2), a candidate’s representative may, either before or after the counting of the votes begins, go from one polling station to another if those polling stations are in the same polling place. However, once the representative leaves the polling place, he or she is not permitted to return after the counting of the votes begins.

• Marginal note:Examination of list of electors and conveying information

  (3) A representative of a candidate may, during voting hours,

  • (a) examine the list of electors, provided that the representative does not delay an elector in casting his or her vote; and

  • (b) convey any information obtained by the examination referred to in paragraph (a) to a representative of the candidate who is on duty outside the polling station.

• Marginal note:Photographs, recordings and communications devices

  (4) A candidate’s representative

  • (a) shall not take any photograph or make any audio or video recording at a polling station; and

  • (b) shall not, if he or she uses a communications device at a polling station, impede any elector from exercising their right to vote or violate the secrecy of the vote.