And at advance polls all over Vancouver, one topic was top of mind.
The Olympic athletes' village, and the $100 million loan guarantee to the developer from city hall.
But while mayoral hopeful and city councillor Peter Ladner is taking the heat for backing the backroom deal, Vision councillors voted in favour of it too.
"We had a unanimous agreement on how to proceed on this project," says Ladner. "All of a sudden it's been thrown into the political arena and people are changing their minds in public."
CTV News asked candidate Gregor Robertson why Vision is against the loan now if they had voted in favour of it last month.
"The Vision councillors didn't know the city's director of finance had real concerns about this," says Robertson.
But just how concerned Lo is depends on who you speak to.
"Our chief financial officer, Estelle lo, who was not at the meeting -- has either resigned or been fired," says councillor Tim Stevenson.
"It's been widely reported that she's left and widely reported that her desk has been cleaned out by security," says councillor Raymond Louie.
But Peter Ladner says that's not true.
"Every year she's going to Hong Kong during the same two weeks period, she'll be back on November 16th, and she's on the city payroll," says Ladner. "It's in my view an attempt to divert attention from Gregor Robertson's fare evasion problems."
Between Robertson's unpaid skytrain fine and Ladner's participation in this top secret Olympic deal, the campaign is certainly heating up.
"In any election campaign you always want to give voters a reason to go to the polls," says political blogger Frances Bula. "If nothing else, this is a way better advertising campaign than the city's "Get out and vote.'"
Today's vote is only an advance poll. We won't know until November 15 how Vancouver voted and who will lead us in 2010.
With a report from CTV British Columbia's Shannon Paterson
