I've worked a few election in Alberta as well, definitely no tokens. However it's possible I suppose that some type of official election tokens are given to voters along with the ballot, then handed back to prove the ballot they're putting in the box is authentic and not counterfeit. Here the way it's done is the Dep Returning Officer initials a strip (called a foil) on the ballot that then gets ripped off. At the end of the election those strips are counted and the number shoukd equal both the number of voters marked off the voting list and how many ballots are in the polling station box. If tokens were used, I suppose they'd replace the strips. Nothing here can be kept by polling station workers and all the election crew promise to abide by the rules under oath, probably to ensure a vote cannot later be contested.
Edited by wildflowerAB
04/30/2016 12:19 am
04/30/2016 12:19 am



















