Heading into Monday’s election, there were already strong indications this was going to be an election day unlike any other Calgary has experienced.
Record-breaking advance polls. A gorgeous fall day. An extremely tight mayor’s race. How could Elections Calgary not be ready for this?
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How could polling stations run out of ballots? How could heavily populated communities have just one polling station?
Invariably, we’ll hear the conspiracy theories that this was all a ploy to hijack the vote; that some challengers’ supporters were left out of the process.
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Those theories aside, the blame has to be placed at the feet of Elections Calgary.
As we dissect the results Elections Calgary has a lot of questions to answer and they’ve got four years to get it right.