Oath of Qualification: Please read carefully. You must click the "Accept" button to proceed to the ballot. By clicking the "Accept" button, I solemnly affirm that I am the person named or intended to be named on the voters’ list or document shown to me; and I have not before voted at the election now being held in the City of Brantford. I am a Canadian citizen, at least 18 years of age and a resident of the City of Brantford or a non-resident owner or tenant of land in the City of Brantford, or the spouse of such owner or tenant.

Offences: Section 89 of the Municipal Elections Act, 1996
A person is guilty of an offence if he or she,
(a) votes without being entitled to do so;
(b) votes more times than this Act allows;
(c) votes in a voting place in which he or she is not entitled to vote;
(d) induces or procures a person to vote when that person is not entitled to do so;
(e) having appointed a voting proxy that remains in force, votes otherwise than by the proxy;
(f) having been appointed a voting proxy, votes under the authority of the proxy when the elector has cancelled the proxy, is no longer entitled to vote or has died;
(g) before or during an election, publishes a false statement of a candidate’s withdrawal;
(h) furnishes false or misleading information to a person whom this Act authorizes to obtain information;
(i) without authority, supplies a ballot to anyone;
(j) delivers to the deputy returning officer to be placed in a ballot box a paper other than the ballot the deputy returning officer gave him or her;
(k) takes a ballot away from the voting place;
(l) at an election, takes, opens or otherwise deals with a ballot, a ballot box, or a book or package of ballots without having authority to do so;
(m) attempts to do something described in clauses (a) to (l). 1996, c. 32, Sched., s. 89; 2009, c. 33, Sched. 21, s. 8 (55).

Corrupt practices: certain offences committed knowingly: Section 90(1) of the Municipal Elections Act, 1996: If, when a person is convicted of an offence under section 89, the presiding judge finds that the offence was committed knowingly, the offence also constitutes a corrupt practice.

1996, c. 32, Sched., s. 90 (1); 2009, c. 33, Sched. 21, s. 8 (56).

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