Election watchers are taken by surprise by Canadian early voting explosion set to alter results | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

More Canadians than ever are eager to cast a ballot in this year’s federal election. Voting day itself isn’t until Oct. 19, but according to Elections Canada more than 1.6 million people went to the polls in the first two days of advance voting on Friday and Saturday. That’s up 34 per cent from those who…