The first day of advance voting in Vancouver’s municipal election saw nearly three times as many voters as the first day of the 2022 municipal election, data show.
A City of Vancouver spokesperson told The Epoch Times that preliminary results showed 21,824 people voted on the first day of advance voting on Oct. 3, compared with 7,380 people on the first day of advance voting in 2022. The spokesperson said this was a 196 percent increase and “the highest single-day advance voting turnout on record for a Vancouver election.”
In 2022, 65,127 people voted during the five advance voting days at 22 voting locations, the data showed.
The City of Vancouver’s website said requests for vote-by-mail packages reached more than 18,000 this year, up more than 70 percent from the 2022 Vancouver Election total of 10,523. …