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OTTAWA (CUP) — Univer- sity students may vote where they live while at school, if they consider that dwelling their “ordinary residence”, Canada’s chief electoral officer said today (Sept. 12).
The statement by Hamel appeared to contra- dict earlier indications that en- mperators would hinder stud-
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ents attempting to register to vote in their university con- stituencies in the October 30 “ federal election.
“If a student tells the en- umerator his ordinary resid- ence is room 105 in a certain university residence, ‘well that's it,” he said. “We cannot‘ ask any more from a student than we can from any othercitizen. We don’t ask other people for proof of age or of citizen~ ship. No more so can we ask for. proof that a student is really on his own. If a student says he’s on‘ his own, then we’ll have to accept that."
Underathe new Elections Act of 1970 students lost the right to be enumerated in both their parents' home constit- uencies and in their university ridings. Instead. Parliament gave them the right to vote by proxy in their parents‘ con- stituency if they couldn’t be there on election day.
Regulations from Hamel’s office directed enumerators to determine whether students liv- ing “away from home”. were “on their own”. If they were, they could vote in their uni- versity riding, but if they were not they could be enumerated only at their parents’ home.
“All we are asking enum# erators to do if they are in doubt ’is to ask students if they would be willing to take an oath about the location of their ordinary residence if chal- lenged on election day," Hamel said in an interview.
. “It’s a personal decision a student must make by his own conscience," he added.
In directives sent to local returning officers last January Hamel said “enumerator: should be instructed that whenever an occupant of a dwelling .describes his occupa- tion as ‘student’ they should determine which of the four
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person by determining the re- lationship of, that person to the other occupants of the dwelling and the nature and frequency of that person’s oc- , cupancy."
(The four situationswere V
married. single living at home, single living away from home, and single on their own.)
The tone of Hamel's inst-
ructions indicated enumerators
would be scrupulous in ensur- ing that only students who were financially independent of their parents would be en-
umerated in university ridings. But Hamel said today that students could vote in univer- sity ridings if they wanted to. “I want to emphasize that we’re not going to submit stud- ents to a means test,” he said.
But local retuming' officers have contacted university res- idence officials to determine "which students, if any, should be enumerated", according to Hamel’s earlier regulations.
Hamel explained today that the move was designed to save time, and that any student who was not included on the on the list provided by res- idence officials could meet an enumerator in a residence com- mon room and get placed on the voters list. '
“ln Edmonton this morning
we got a report that author»
ities in a university residence said that 150 students might claim the building as their or- dinary residence, but now there will be as many as 700 on the list,” he said.
“So residence authorities have nothing to do with the result. They’re just saving us the time needed to knock on
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every residence door and all- owing us to allocate the app- ropriate number of enumerat- ors,” the chief electoral officer added.
The Election Act itself only mentions students in its sec- tion on proxies. All other rul- ings for student voting are in- terpretations from Hamel’s office.
National New Democratic Party secretary Clifford Scot- ton said today he is certain students can choose where they want to vote, and is un- ware of Harnel’s memos indic- ating anything to the contrary.
“I have a daughter at York and 1 provide support for her but I consider her on her own. I expect she will vote there,"
. he said. "The unquestionable
right to vote where the stud- ent pleases must be estiblisll- ed,” he added. -
Hamel claimed such a prin- ciple violates the spirit of the Election Act but that students
‘ could not be prevented from
considering their university - dwelling their ordinary resid- ence if they were willing to swear it on election day.
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