Voting Protest Yields Results
Written by Paul Graif on 20 September 2021
Haudenosaunee protestors at 6 Nations of the Grand River were outside of the Federal election polling station on the territory. The Confederacy council sent a letter last week protesting the polling station being allowed to open on the territory. One protestor saying the station was to move:
“I’ve just been informed now that, by the Chief of Police, 6 Nation’s Chief of Police, that Elections Canada official have now pulled out, there moving to an alternate station. A polling station off the territory, I heard it was somewhere in Oakland, possibly. The police have just left and, yeah, our job is done here for today.”
6 Nations Police Chief Darren Montour saying that Elections Canada agreed to move:
“The people organizing it from Elections Canada have agreed to move the polling station off the territory, so they received a letter from the Confederacy Chiefs this morning, from what I’m told. So to alleviate any potential incidents, they agreed to move it off the territory.”
According to Lynda Powless from Turtle Island News from her Facebook posts, the voting location for Six Nations was then moved to 3 King St North, Oakland, off of the territory. Normally, approximately 1,100 people vote in Federal elections.
