Vancouver’s chief election officer files court application challenging use of names with Chinese, Persian characters
Vancouver’s chief election officer has filed a court application seeking to declare that 15 candidates in upcoming municipal polls are not entitled to have their names on the ballot papers using Chinese, Persian or other non-Latin characters.
The application says all of the respondents submitted their “usual name” to be used on the ballot papers in both Latin characters and either Chinese or Persian. Vision Vancouver says in a statement that Wong and council candidate Honieh Barzegar were dismayed by the possibility that their “unique and usual names” printed in non-Latin characters would be removed from ballot papers.
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