Frequently Asked Questions

If you were on the Voters List in the 2022 election, there is a good chance you are, however, if your mailing or civic address has changed since the last municipal election, you may complete and file the prescribed form at:

The Office of the Clerk

The Corporation of the Municipality of Red Lake

2 Fifth Street, Balmertown, ON

during regular office hours between September 1st, 2026 and October 23rd, 2026 and to the close of voting day on October 26, 2026.  The application shall be in writing and shall be filed in person, or by mail, email or fax by the applicant or his/her agent.  Proof of identity and residence as prescribed in O. Reg. 304/13 will be required of the applicant.  If the applicant does not appear in person, a certified copy showing proof of ID and proof of residence/occupancy is required.

You are eligible to vote in the election for municipal council if you meet all of the following requirements:

• you are a Canadian citizen
• you are aged 18 or older
• you qualify to vote in the municipality.

There are three ways that you can qualify to vote in a municipality:

1. As a resident elector if you live in the municipality. You may own, rent, live in shared accommodation where you do not pay rent or live in the municipality but do not have a fixed address. Being a resident elector is the most common type of eligibility.
2. As a non-resident elector if you own or rent property in a municipality, but it's not the one where you live. You can only be a resident elector in one municipality. However, you can be a non-resident elector in any other municipality (or municipalities) where you own or rent property.
3. As the spouse of a non-resident elector if your spouse owns or rents property in the municipality or municipalities other than the one where you live.

Neither you nor your spouse qualify as a non-resident elector if you do not personally own or rent the property in the municipality. For example, if the property is owned by your business or your cottage is owned by a trust, you would not qualify as a nonresident elector.

A person may make an application to the Clerk requesting that their name be added to or removed from the Voters' List or that information on the Voters' List relating to them be amended by completing and filing the prescribed from available at:.

The Office of the Clerk

The Corporation of the Municipality of Red Lake

2 Fifth Street, Balmertown, ON

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during regular office hours between September 1st, 2026 to October 23rd, 2026 and to the close of voting on October 26th, 2026. The application shall be in writing and shall be filed in person, or by mail, email or fax by the applicant or his/her agent. Proof of identity and residence as prescribed in O. Reg. 304/13 will be required of the applicant. If the applicant does not appear in person, a certified copy showing proof of ID and proof of residence/occupancy is required.

To run for a position on council you must be eligible to vote in that municipality. On the day you file your nomination, you must be a Canadian citizen aged 18 or older, and qualify as a resident or non-resident elector.

The following people are disqualified from being elected to municipal office:

• any person who is not eligible to vote in the municipality
• an employee of a municipality who has not taken an unpaid leave of absence
• and resigned (see above)
• a judge of any court
• an MP, an MPP or a senator
• an inmate serving a sentence in a penal or correctional institution.

To file your nomination you must give the following to your municipal clerk:

• a completed nomination form (Form 1)
• the nomination fee

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Simply Voting was designed from the ground-up to eliminate the risk of electoral fraud or breach of secrecy:

• Voters who bypass authentication or have already voted are denied access to the ballot.
• One-vote-per-voter is guaranteed by marking electors as voted and storing the vote in a single transaction. Even if a voter submits the ballot simultaneously on several devices, this technology guarantees that only one vote is accepted.
• Ballots are rigorously checked for validity before being accepted.
• All administrator and voter activity is logged with timestamp and IP address in an Activity Log.
• Communication between the voter's computer and our website is encrypted with TLS 1.2 and strong cipher suites to protect against current and future encryption attacks.
• The entire voting system database is encrypted at rest using AES-256 encryption.
• Our servers are "hardened" and are subjected to daily Trust Guard PCI Compliance security scans.
• Our voting system is regularly subjected to penetration tests by CyberHunter and source code security audits by HP Fortify.
• Simply Voting adheres to guidelines established by the Open Web Application Security Project.
• Any change to the voting system must pass an internal security review before going live.
• All staff workstations are kept up-to-date and protected by access password, firewall, anti-virus, anti-spamware and disk encryption.
• We authenticate our emails with DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) to protect voters from phishing attacks.
• Our servers are protected by a very powerful firewall, FortiGate Unified Threat Management, which includes an Intrusion Detection System and a redundant firewall on hot standby.
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You can see the unofficial list of candidates here.

Forms for Candidates can be found on the Candidate's page.

Forms for Voters can be found on the Voter page.