McMaster University students cast early election votes, ‘a win-win-win for democracy,’ says professor [Video]

Casting a ballot this federal election was a must-do for 21-year-old McMaster University student Eden Ryley.

She and her roommates made a pact they’d vote before they went on vacation because it overlapped with Election Day on April 28. 

An extra-advanced polling station on the Hamilton campus made it easy, Ryley said.

On Tuesday, after a game of squash, the fourth-year life sciences student stopped to vote for the first time in a federal election. She said she was motivated by wanting issues that impact her future to be taken more seriously by party leaders. 

“Education costs and the job market right now for young people are not great,” she said. “It’s not addressed as much as other issues in politics.”

A steady stream of students entered the polling station Tuesday, greeted by other students running it with support from Elections Canada staff.

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