Elections Le Canada wants you to know that your voting bulletin will count if you mark it with a pen or with a pencil.
The independent agency says that it is to see articles on social networks, saying that voters must use a pencil to mark their ballot.
Certain publications on X, the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, encouraged voters to bring a pen to their polling station to avoid the possibility of falsification of the ballot.
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On his website, the Canada elections consider to be false, the complaint that a ballot marked in pencil could be mucus or erased and would not count accordingly.
The agency claims that ballot workers are held by law to provide voters with black lead pencils, but a pen or other writing tool would work just as well.
Canada elections says it uses pencils because pens can dry or flee, which could spoil a ballot.
Voting bulletins only unzipped when it is time to count the vote on election day, said the Canada elections.
“All voting bulletins are counted by pairs of remunerated electoral workers and, by law, the counting is made before witnesses who do not work for the Canada elections (generally candidates representatives),” said the Canada Elections website.
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