The clock is ticking down to the deadline to hand in your ballot for Metro Vancouver’s transit funding plebiscite.
Voters can still get their ballots in on time by heading to one of nine Elections BC service offices located throughout the Lower Mainland. Ballots need to be in before 8:00 pm today.
Click here for a map and list of service office locations.
Metro Vancouver residents are voting whether to support a 0.5% regional sales tax to raise municipal government’s portion of a $7.5 billion transportation expansion and improvement plan.
Putting the plan in place will also require funding from the provincial and federal governments, with the assumption that each of the three levels of government would provide one-third of the money.
The plan includes more bus service and road improvements, as well as several new big-ticket projects: a new Patullo Bridge, a light rail system to service Surrey and Langley and a subway along a portion of Vancouver’s Broadway Corridor.
Elections BC says depending on the number of ballots returned, results will be made public in late June or early July. Don Main, communications officer for Elections BC, said based on the number of returns so far, he expects counting to be done by the end of June.
Vote counting will start in the middle of next week because the ballots being currently collected at the service offices need to be transported to Election BC’s Victoria offices, Main said.
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