Elections BC has created a selfie wall for people who are proud to show they voted in the provincial election on May 9.

Andrew Watson, a spokesman for Elections BC, said it's the first time the agency has done this, although it is following Saskatchewan's example.

The hope, he said, is to raise awareness of the election and spread the word to vote

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Elections BC said the idea came up after the 2013 election when they noticed many people were voting and then taking selfies of themselves wearing their voting stickers and it wanted to build on that momentum.

Stuart Pontyz, an assistant professor of communications at Simon Fraser University, said this is quite the turnaround from the federal election in 2015. At the time, regulators were concerned to see young voters taking photos of themselves in the voting booth.

"And of course, this raised a real concern of the violation of the privacy of the ballot," he said.

"Now, it's become almost a formal advertising campaign to encourage people, and particularly young people, to vote."

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