Ok would you people PLEASE get your election shit together [View all]
I know I post this every two years, but still...
I'm a former employee of Elections Canada. I've worked for Federal and Provincial campaigns is a variety of positions. I'm best known as "the guy with the truck" for lugging huge campaign signs around. I'm also active at the polls.
Canada doesn't have mail in or online voting. It does have convenient early voting. There's lots of polls, they're in driving distance and on major bus routes and if you need a ride you can phone the campaign office and somebody will take you.
There's a great long list of acceptable ID including dragging your neighbour in to swear you in. Hence, ballots are pre-sorted. Unless you spoil your ballot, if it's in the box, it's valid.
On election day, the head pool person drives over and picks up a kit for each polling station. It easily fits in the trunk of a car. There are signs, cardboard ballot boxes, cardboard voting shields, bags, sticky tape and folders of valid voters. As a voter comes in they are checked off the list (as above there are ways of dealing with exceptions), given a cute little paper ballot, they vote behind one of the little cardboard partitions then put it in the ballot box.
End of the night, the boxes are opened and counted in front of scrutineers from each Party (assuming they show up), results are totted up, phoned into the central office (scrutineers phone their campaign offices), everything gets sealed in sticky tape, boxed up and returned to central office and everybody's home by 11 pm to watch the results on yhe news.
It's coming up on a week and you STILL dont have results for House OR Senate???!!!??
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