Editing Early voting (section)

===Canada===
{{Main|Elections in Canada}}
In Canada, elections are administered by [[Elections Canada]]. Early in-person voting is called '''advance polls''', which are held on the 10th, 9th, 8th and 7th days before election day at designated advance-poll stations. Canadian voters may locate the date, hours, and address of their advance-poll station at the Elections Canada website, on their voter information card, or by telephoning Elections Canada.<ref name=ElectionsCanada>[https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=vote&document=index&lang=e Ways to vote], Elections Canada (last accessed December 4, 2022).</ref> About 4.9 million Canadians cast advance votes in the [[2019 Canadian federal election|2019 election]], and almost 5.8 million Canadians cast ballots during the four advance-poll dates of the [[2021 Canadian federal election|2021 election]], setting a record.<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mail-in-voting-deadline-1.6173854 Canadians set new record at advance polls, hundreds of thousands of votes expected to arrive by mail], CBC News (September 15, 2021).</ref>

Canadians may also vote, upon application, at Elections Canada local offices (established during election seasons in every [[Electoral district (Canada)|riding in Canada]]), or by mail. Ballots cast via these methods are termed "special ballots."<ref name=ElectionsCanada/> Historically, voting by mail has been fairly rare in Canada; of the 18.4 million total votes in the 2019 Canadian election, slightly under 50,000 voters cast ballots by mail, with most of these ballots coming from [[Canadian diaspora|Canadians living abroad]].<ref>David Ljunggren, [https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mail-in-voting-set-soar-canada-election-could-undermine-trudeau-new-democratic-2021-08-17/ Mail-in voting set to soar in Canada election, could undermine Trudeau, New Democratic Party], Reuters (August 17, 2021).</ref> Voting by mail in Canada increased during the 2021 election, with more than 1.1 million special ballots received (including from [[Canadian Forces]] servicemembers, Canadians living abroad, Canadians away from home on election day, and incarcerated Canadians); of this total, about 99,988 special ballots were not counted because they arrived after the receipt deadline (6 p.m. on election day), did not have a voter signature, or had some other problem.<ref>Marie Woolf, [https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/elections-canada-votes-not-counted-1.6499013 Almost 100,000 mail ballots not counted in federal election: Elections Canada], [[The Canadian Press]] (June 23, 2022).</ref>