Eleanor Glyn-Jones is still scratching her head.
Somehow, she was registered to vote in her home town of Flin Flon, Man., more than 500 km away from Saskatoon, even though she hasn’t lived there for 20 years.
“I left home when I was 18-years-old,” she said. “I’m now 38.”
The issue came to light when Glyn-Jones couldn’t find herself on the online Voter Registration list on Elections Canada’s website.
After calling in, she was told her name had been removed from the Saskatoon voting list because she was listed as a duplicate entry.
To complicate things even more, she was registered to vote in Flin Flon under her maiden name, a last name she hasn’t used for almost two decades.
“I just don’t understand how that could have happened,” she said. “I haven’t used that last name, I got married in 1998 so I’ve been using my married name for many years.”
Glyn-Jones has voted in the same riding of Saskatoon-University for the last five elections.
“I have my income tax in my married name,” she said. “My drivers licence is in my married name, I’ve had passports in my married name.”
She believes the situation has been fixed, but she still has no idea how this happened.
Glyn-Jones is worried this may have happened to someone else, and it won’t be fixed in time for them to vote.
“They’re going to show up at their polling station, and they’re not going to be on the list,” she said. “How many wrong voters are on the wrong voting list?”
Source: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon