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Elections Alberta 'ready to deliver' as advanced referendum polls to open this week
Elections Alberta expects record turnout as 658,000 mail-in ballots were requested and 310 advance polling stations open for five days.
- On Tuesday, Elections Alberta will open 310 advance polling stations provincewide for five days of voting ahead of the October 19 referendum on 10 questions ranging from immigration to separation.
- Voters face 10 questions: nine address immigration policy and constitutional reform, while the 10th asks whether Alberta should remain in Canada or hold a binding referendum on separation.
- Elections Alberta processed roughly 658,000 mail-in requests with over 300,000 returned by Friday; the agency also remedied issues affecting roughly 300 voters who received incomplete ballot packages and 3,000 ballots mailed back with missing documentation.
- Officials will tally the separation question first on October 19, releasing early results after 8 p.m., while the hand-counting requirement means final totals likely won't arrive until the early hours of October 20.
- With Elections Alberta anticipating record turnout of about 85 per cent, the Opposition NDP has criticized Alberta Premier Danielle Smith for underfunding the electoral system, arguing the move sets the agency up to fail.
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Approximately 310 advance polling stations open their doors on Tuesday, in Alberta, during a historic election in the province's place within Canada.
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Leaning Left27Leaning Right2Center9Last UpdatedBias Distribution71% Left
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- 71% of the sources lean Left
71% Left
L 71%
C 24%
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