Final day for advance voting in Vancouver byelection

Vancouverites who won't be able to vote in Saturday's byelection for council and school board have one last early chance to cast a ballot Tuesday.

People cancast their ballots at city halluntil 8 p.m.

Staff areoffering accessibility aids for people with disabilities, including a sip-and-puff device, an audio system with headphones to read the ballot, and a magnification device to enlarge the ballot services not available on general election day.

• Who's running in Vancouver's October byelection?

The byelectionwas promptedafter formerVisioncouncillorGeoff Meggs resignedto becomePremier John Horgan'schief of staff.

A month later, the NDP government announced therewould also be an election to replace the school board trustees who werefiredby the previous B.C. Liberal governmentin 2016.

Nine people are running for council, while 19 people are running for the nine school trustee positions.

Who's endorsing whom?

With no mayoral candidate on the ballot and with the majority of council candidates seen as competitive individual endorsements are being promoted by some in the race.

Here are some of the more interesting localones thus far:

• Diego Cardona (Vision): endorsedby environmental activist Tzeporah Berman, and MaryEllenTurpel-Lafond,B.C.'s former representative for children and youth.
• Hector Bremner(NPA):endorsedby former mayor and current Vancouver-False Creek MLA Sam SullivanandArnedoLucasof the PhilippinesCanadaTrade Council.
• Pete Fry (Greens): endorsed by Bob Williams, longtime Vancity board member and former NDP MLA for Vancouver East, and Patrick Condon, urban design professor atUBC.
• Jean Swanson (independent, endorsed by COPE): supported by longtime NDP MP Libby Davies, the Vancouver Tenants Union.
• Judy Graves (OneCity): endorsed by former Vancouver mayor Philip Owenandthe Vancouver District Labour Council.
• Mary Jean "Watermelon" Dunsdon (Sensible Vancouver): endorsed by former Vision park board commissioner Sarah Blyth, who co-founded Vancouver's Overdose Prevention Society and Tina Shaw, an overdose response worker at the Maple Overdose Prevention Site

Where to vote on election day?

The city will have 50 polling stations open in Vancouver on Oct. 14 for general voting day, along with one polling station at University Hill Secondaryon the University Endownment Lands, where residents can only vote for school board trustees.

• A full map of polling stations can be found here

To vote, people must be 18 or older, a Canadian citizen and B.C. resident for at least six months and a resident of Vancouver for at least 30 days.

Citizens must also be onthe Voters' Listor must register at the ballot box with two pieces of identification proving residence in Vancouveror one piece of ID along with an oath of declaration.

On the first day of advancevoting, a total of 1,988 ballots were cast.