How Elections Canada plans to safeguard mail-in ballots

Long-term care facility representatives and the Assembly of First Nations say the agency needs to provide training well in advance of a potential pandemic election to ensure communities can cast their vote by mail.

Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault is asking Parliament to consider allowing it to train workers at seniors’ homes in order to administer the voteThe Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

November 12, 2020

Elections Canada says that as soon all 338 writs are issued, voters would be able to apply to cast their ballot by mail, if the federal election were to be held amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic. The agency is anticipating...

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