I worked as an Information Officer at Canada's election day today. Ask me anything!

What does an information officer do?

So we direct people on which poles to go to, 13 out of the 15 hour shift.

We monitor the vote counting, make sure no party touches the counting ballots or papers (yes this happened), and close all poles

Other than this what was the dumbest question you were asked today?

Does this count as ID? Because I am a citizen and got this in the mail

I hadn't realised you need ID to vote on Canada! That's quite interesting..

You pretty much just need two pieces of mail with your name and address on them... Shit someone can just come in and swear they know you and they will take your ballot.

Source: I was a Deputy Returning Officer at the polls yesterday and had to do this for someone who was going batshit crazy about their right to vote.

HOLY CRAP yes I had someone like that too. But they had no one to attest to so when he forcefully voted, we minus one'd his poll so his vote won't count.

Please explain this.

Forcefully voted? How did they get a ballot? Minus one'd his poll? WTF does that mean?

He force-voted as in he came with no ID. He started a scene and we let him "vote".

We called the central place and they said to do a -1 from that ballot box.

So hypothetically there are 3 other votes in this poll. 2 are for Party A and 1 for Party B. SceneMaker votes Party B. 4 Votes total how do you -1 that?

Exactly and I was wondering too. I do not know the details.

How many folks went away without voting because they couldn't satisfy the new ID requirements? (I saw two at my polling station when I voted)

I counted 15 with me. 5 people refused to show me their ID because a police officer can ask for ID only. K then.

Who did you vote for?

Liberal

Did alot of people wear masks?

Haha not even one person did, and one guy contemplated on doing that in the lineup. Guess what voting party he was on.....

Did you see any disproportionate amount of a particular demographic? I was under the impression there were a lot more young voters this time around.

You won't believe how many JUST turned 18 yr olds I saw.

What was the involvement of the scrutineers?

I volunteered as a scrutineer about 15 years ago.

Their hypothetical role is to watch the poll workers to ensure that all voters who are eligible are allowed to vote, no one ineligible is able to vote. They also watch as the votes are counted. It's a transparency measure for the parties to ensure fairness.

In practice, their access to the lists of who has voted and who hasn't helps parties with their get out the vote tactics. If we have a name of a person who has told us they were going to vote for us, and they haven't shown up at the polls yet, the party can call them and offer a ride to the polling station.

You got it

Why do they turn people away at voting areas when they come to the wrong location?

I was in line with my registration card, and the lady in front of me had her and her mothers registration cards, but they were at the wrong location. The Information Officer turned them away - the lady in a huff said, "Fuck this, I'm not voting," and stormed off. This seems terribly inconvenient! I know that following simple instructions for some people is difficult, but it was frustrating to see.

Unfortunately, every station has a list of people allowed to vote their. Only they can vote there. Or else, we can't know who is voting twice

i was given two ballots. i gave one back after i had gotten to the little cardboard thing to vote behind. is that a countable error?

Yes. Each book has a specific set of ballots.

hmm, is there a place i can see the errors for my polling station?

Sorry I would not know.

What were the spoilt votes like?

Just 9 at my voting center.

Out of how many? That's pretty low, which shows that people don't want to waste their vote.

We had 1000+ people here to vote. Yes, you are right.

How many people were turned away becauae all they had were passports or medicare cards with no proof of address?

15 people. 5 were refusing to show me their ID so I sent them to the back of the 150 people line so they can contemplate whether they want to vote or not.

Does anybody care about Canada besides Canadians?

Well if this was your DAE CANADA SUX jab, you failed.

My comment was not calculated 2 B offensive, you perceived it as such due to an effeminate worldview

What was it meant to be then? You don't hear something like that regularly.

Unparalleled insight

Uh....okay then.....whatever that means.

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Nope it's fake