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Ottawa Now - Does online voting fuel a significant uptick in election participation?

January 14, 2026

Over 200 Ontario municipalities experimented with online voting during the 2022 election cycle. Sarnia has been on board since 2018, and they will be among October’s growing crowd of cities. Woodstock, meantime, will be one of the newcomers to online voting in 2026. Is our city ready for online voting, and does this practice actually fuel an uptick in election participation? We pick the brain of Nicole Goodman, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock University, on today’s Ottawa Now.



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