Dan Jankowski's driver's licence sports his parents' address and he gets his cell phone bills online -- so he wonders how he'll measure up to new voting rules in the federal by-election on Monday.

The 27-year-old is one of the thousands of young voters in the riding of Vancouver Quadra who wonder if a new elections law that requires you to produce some form of identification with a current address before you can cast your ballot could stop them from voting.

"I've been transient and I'm probably going to move again in the next six months," said Jankowski, who has lived in the riding for about a year.

"My strategy is going to be to bring in my ID and to print out my Shaw bill and see what happens," he said. "And if it doesn't work out I'll make a fuss."

The Vancouver riding of Quadra is one of four districts across Canada up for grabs on Monday. This round of by-elections are the first test for a new election law that requires voters to produce identification before they mark a ballot.

That has young people -- many of whom share basement suites or who have recently moved to the riding to study at the University of B.C. -- worried they'll fall through the cracks of the new law.

New rules for voters a Canadian first

Under the new law, every voter has to produce one piece of government ID with a name, photograph, and address in the riding.

Failing that, two pieces of ID -- one with a name and an address, and the other with at least a name -- can be used.

And a voter with no suitable identification can take an oath, but only if another person who lives in the polling district -- one of as many as 100 small subsets of a riding, some as small as a block -- vouches for them.

But Jankowski's drivers licence sports his parents' address -- what he's been using as a permanent address. He doesn't get utility bills in his suite he shares with a roommate.

And his cell phone bill is e-mailed to him, and so doesn't have an address.

And the way out -- that someone can vouch for him -- is difficult because many of his friends are in the same situation, he said. Organizing a trip to the polling booths together is difficult because everyone has conflicting schedules, he added.

"There's lots of voter apathy," he said. "When you're taking away a facility to vote, you're making it even easier for them not to care."

Candidates worried about new law

Two of the candidates running in Vancouver Quadra, the NDP's Rebecca Coad and the Green Party's Dan Grice, are recent graduates of the University of B.C.

They're worried that the new measures will end up disenfranchising young voters.

"A lot of people who live in basement suites, they've stiffened up the regulations, so it's harder for people to vote," said Grice. "People are going to be frustrated."

Coad said she was encouraging people to get their addresses updated on their drivers' licences.

But not many people have the time to do that, she said. What the measures really do is encourage the more established and affluent -- who have lived in the same place for a long time and whose ID will reflect their current address -- to vote, she said.

At the University of B.C., officials have gone door-to-door at student residences to let students know about the rule changes, said Elections Canada spokeswoman Susan Friend.

Students who live in residence -- who also don't receive utility bills and whose ID often shows their parents' address -- have been given special "attestation forms" that confirm where they live, said Bob Frampton of UBC Housing.

But the attestation forms are just more paperwork for people who may not understand the elections system in the first place, said Coad.

"[Getting those forms is] a big commitment to voting," she said. "The biggest problem in Canada right now is not that people are voting too much, it's whether they are voting at all."