Mail has slowly begun moving this week as the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) switches to rotating strikes — but it’s already too late for Canada Post to deliver voter cards and mail-in ballots for multiple upcoming elections across the country.

Provinces, territories and municipalities have scrambled to get voting details and documents out to residents through other means.

But some experts say despite those efforts, the disruption could still lead to fewer people casting their ballots, since voter registration cards provide essential information during elections for which rules can be different and turnout already tends to be low.

The national postal strike was part icularly disruptive to the delivery of voter registration cards in Quebec, where most voters had to make sure th

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