Elections Alberta says the number of mail-in ballots requested for next month’s referendum has surpassed 610,000.
The new total is an increase of about 90,000 since Friday and continues the trend of growing interest in voting by mail for the Oct. 19 referendum.
Albertans have until Friday at midnight to apply for a special mail-in ballot.
Elections Alberta says the ballots need to be returned by Oct. 16 at 5 p.m. in order to be counted.
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The agency is expecting a record voter turnout for the referendum, which will see Albertans decide whether they want to remain in Canada or hold a second, binding referendum on separating from the country.
The vote is a massive undertaking for Elections Alberta. It says it has hired more than 28,000 people and received almost 52,000 applications.
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Wow thanks to the intelligence of some comments just shows how bad our society is becoming. They go to name calling and a pathetic display of ignorance just to think they are funny or whatever. Stay hiding behind fake names and have nothing to add!
Enjoy your days people and hope you live a great wonderful life taking pathetic shots at others just to make yourself feel good!
I’m a brainwashed donkey. Ignore my comments. I’m just repeating what the propaganda machine spoon fed me. I’m a total clown. Real winner
Liberal bots are out spamming fake information again . Its more like 90 % for separate
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D channon go fist f*** your mother’s azz
Albertans will only ever increase in numbers for leaving. The only way to stop Alberta from leaving and to import foreigners.
Let’s hope that at least 90 percent of the votes are for Alberta to stay in Canada and this separatist movement can stay with Quebec as they really do not want to be part of Canada and just want all the benefits. Let’s hope they have another vote to seperate and the separatists win so Canada can get back to what it once was before the separation vote they had that changed the Constitution.
As for this referendum it is a complete waste of taxpayers money just so the Premier and her Wildrose base can feel important to themselves while trying to push their ideology onto all of us.
Maybe some more fake tears will help Smith out as she is trying very hard to win her votes back and don’t forget that she may look to cross the floor again if it is all falling apart like she did which caused us to get 4 years of NDP disaster which hopefully does not happen again with Nenshi leading them this time. If they get in it would be at least 10 time worse than what Notley did to the province.