Online applications to vote by mail in the Alberta referendum this upcoming October are now open.
Premier Danielle Smith is putting 10 questions on the Oct. 19 ballot, including whether the province should remain in Canada or hold a second, binding referendum on secession.
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Albertans will also be asked to weigh in on questions of constitutional and immigration reform.
Applications for mail-in ballots close Oct. 9, and voters have until Oct. 16 to return the envelopes by mail, with photocopies of their identification.
Advance voting around the province runs between Oct. 13 and 17.
Elections Alberta says it has so far received about 22,000 job applications as part of an unprecedented hiring spree aimed at recruiting 60,000 workers needed to hold the vote.
To Ursula:
That claim about “hundreds of ballots mailed to the same address” isn’t in the article at all — it only appears in your comment. Elections Alberta’s actual process for this referendum requires voters to return photocopies of their ID with the mail in ballot, which makes mass fraudulent mailings basically impossible.
You might be confusing this with the Alberta Independent Voters database theft — that incident involved stolen personal data, not mail in ballots being sent out improperly. It’s important to separate those two things, because the article doesn’t support what you’re suggesting.
Good news for the elderly and handicapped.
For anyone concerned ballots will not be mailed out to people not already on the voter lists which means Forever Canada will not get to have hundreds of ballots mailed to the same address with fictional names.
No.
This MUST be in person, id provided.
Let the cheating begin, the lefties that is.
Still think it is ridiculous that there is a separate ballot for each individual question
She sure is appealing to her base and will do ANYTHING to keep her job, sadly