A couple of weeks ago, Biscotti and I each received a voter information card in the mail. As the advance voting days approached, we decided to get our votes in then, for various reasons. Our advance voting location was identified correctly as Nat Bailey Stadium. However, 601 Ontario Street immediately jumped out at me. Ontario Street runs northbound until just past 1st Ave, near Science World. At Ontario Street's northern-most point, where its addresses would be the lowest, an address would be in the area of 1500. Therefore, 601 Ontario Street is not possible. Having been to Nat Bailey Stadium a few times in my life (go C's!), I know that it is near 30th Ave. But I can imagine people who have never been - or possibly heard of - Nat Bailey Stadium, attempting to find it using the incorrect address, failing to find it, and therefore not voting. A week or so after the original was sent, new voter information cards were sent. In the top right corner was yellow-highlighted text: Revised Information. Also yellow-highlighted was the new correct address for Nat Bailey Stadium: 4601 Ontario Street.
Looking past how dumb it was to have made the error in the first place - I mean, c'mon, it's info from government pertaining to how to vote in a federal election - consider the effort made to rectify the error, including the cost of mailing out all those new cards and having someone (several people?) highlight the texts on all those new cards. Some attention to detail the first time around would have prevented a lot of unnecessary costs.
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