By Lisa Goudy
A number of concerns have been raised at some polling stations during the municipal election this past Wednesday.
Some electronic voting machines rejected
ballots that had at least one section that was left blank or the maximum
number of
candidates wasn’t filled out. Machines also rejected ballots if
someone voted for more than the maximum number of candidates.
The machine attendant working the election had to ask the person
if they had intended not to vote for all the areas in the
same open room where voting took place.
“An advantage of the electronic vote counting
machines is that we have an ability to catch any voter errors before the
ballot
is deposited into the ballot box, which is not something that you
have the option of doing in a paper ballot situation,” said
city clerk/solicitor Myron Gulka-Tiechko.
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