Kitchener's 1st drive-thru voting station opens

Have you heard of drive-through voting? For just today and tomorrow, the City of Kitchener has opened a drive-through polling station. You could just vote and not even have to unbuckle your seat. Hi, welcome to the drive-through. Just under 200 electors have cast their ballot. Yes, we had about a 45-minute lineup this morning. Some eager beavers pulled into the parking lot at 10:30, wanted to be the first car to go through the drive-through voting. Great feedback so far from electors that are using this opportunity, some with mobility challenges, we've had some new and expecting parents taking the opportunity while children are sleeping to come in and cast their ballot. So I have to be really careful not to film people are actually casting their ballots in this little white booth over here, but here's an idea of what it could look like if you drove through yourself. So it's very similar to an in-person voting location, so just like in person the voters asked for their identification once they're crossed off the list and given a ballot the only difference is their ballot is in this handy privacy screen again purpose built and designed for drive-through voting has a hard bottom allows electors to have it delivered to them through their window the ballot is safe and secure inside they mark their ballot and then return their ballot to the tabulator system for casting so very similar the only difference is they don't have to get out of the car to do it not having done this before we weren't sure what the turnout would be like and again we were very pleased with that first initial turnout and then just periodically throughout the day to see cars come in and take advantage of it is a wonderful feeling.