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Prepare to wait in some Alberta municipalities as ballots counted by hand this election (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 4 days ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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It's likely to be a long night — and for many municipalities, long days — to tally election results in Alberta, thanks to the switch this year away from machines in favour of a hand count.

The province banned electronic vote tabulators in legislation passed last year, a change some cities warn will take longer, cost more, and increase the risk of spoiled ballots.

"We have prepared significantly, we have increased the number of voting stations, we have increased the number of election workers," said Calgary chief returning officer Kate Martin.

Calgarians are likely to learn the mayoral results on election night Monday, Oct. 20, but it could take a bit longer to learn the winners of the council and trustee races.

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[–] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I work with software. The last thing I want is for elections to involve commercial software!

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I also work with people who get paid to do manual data entry. I would be skeptical of any close results, you will probably get a different number each time it's counted.

[–] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 1 points 2 days ago

Yup! That's why as soon as the result is within some margin, there is a judicial recounting: they re-count the votes in a much more controlled environment, with 3 person looking at each ballot, and a judge/layer taking notes.

If you have the opportunity, i encourage you to volunteer to work in your local elections. It's a great way to learn about all the mechanism in place to ensure elections are fair, and to do your part to help!

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago

Most of Canada uses electronic vote tabulators -- machines that count the votes and are NOT connected to the internet.

[–] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Knowing how Smith's UCP operates, I'd bet this is the plan. Pass a bill to remove the current electronic votiing machines under the guise of "protecting from fraud and increasing trust", make this ballot count a clusterfuck to show how hand counting "doesn't work and costs too much", then suddenly have a solution and set up a new "safer" privatized electronic voting system established before the next provincial election. This follows their m.o. of crippling the systems they want to privatize.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

I don't know if it's anything that involved. Trump wants states to stop using voting machines and Smith is the type to follow his lead.

[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Especially with the now so common “creative AI” feature!!

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

And now with more human “error”.

[–] Binzy_Boi@piefed.ca 1 points 4 days ago

You do realise how heavily scrtunised Elections Alberta is, right?