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Anyone Ever Work A Municipal Election?

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I finished up my training to work the Carleton-Victoria municipal elections and something kept nagging at me in the back of my head.

During training our instructor said a few times "Ok, so the voter goes here to sign in, gets their token here and goes here to fill out the ballot.

I wasn't going to stop the class to ask about the tokens but are there *really* tokens? Should I bring some local tokens with me to the polls, wait until we close and show my superior that I do actively collect local tokens then ask nicely for one? Offer to pay a dollar?

Any experience working the polls, C.C.F. ?
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 Posted 04/29/2016  11:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add GregJG to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I have worked at one poll in Calgary, no tokens unfortunately...
Always grab anything you can, you never know what it could be worth in a few years.

I've heard stories about people showing collectable interest in tokens, and then getting to cherry pick from the pile. Always worth asking.
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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.

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Worked in many federal campaigns over the years and a few provincial ones as well. The only tokens were the token idiots we kept electing ...! LolLol!!
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