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By James Peters

Election 2020

More than 560,000 British Columbians have voted in advance polls

Oct 21, 2020 | 11:28 AM

KAMLOOPS — Elections B.C. says more than a half-million British Columbians have voted in advance polls since they opened last week.

According to new totals released Wednesday (Oct. 21), there have been 564,951 ballots cast in advance polling stations.

In Kamloops-South Thompson, there have been 7,898 ballots cast in six days of advance polls. The total is 6,913 in Kamloops-North Thompson.

Wednesday is the last day that advance polls are open ahead of general voting day on Oct. 24.

The advancing voting totals are in addition to the 347,900 vote-by-mail packages that have already been received by Elections B.C.

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The agency says that represents about 48 per cent of all mail-in voting packages issued to British Columbians.

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