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Threat of low voter turnout hangs over anticipated election call

Elections Canada ballot boxes set up as part of a Student Vote Program exercise in September 2019. The chance to boost voting accessibility, including by creating a polling period rather than a single election day, was lost when Bill C-19 failed to pass. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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