DCHP-3

service vote

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in an election, that portion of the total vote which is cast by persons in the armed services who are absent from their home ridings, these voters casting their ballots on a designated day prior to election day, the results of the balloting being made public some time after the general election results.

Quotations

1962
Even if it is administratively impossible to camouflage the service vote completely . . . surely arrangements could be made whereby the ballots of servicemen were counted on election night. . . .
1963
The results of the service vote likely will be known on Saturday or Sunday following the April 8 general election.