If you're voting in the cities of Edmonton or Calgary today, you'll probably notice extremely long lines. These long lines are due to the UCP. They are forcing hand-counted ballots (which makes absolutely NO sense as hand-counting is much less accurate), so we need a separate ballot for each person's 3 votes (mayor, council, school trustee). Again, more voter suppression. I ran the last poll that was still hand-counted in like 2002 or something. My station was spot on because I was good with numbers and organization before I got old and my brain deteriorated, so I was done shortly after we closed (which was at 6pm, I think?), but then had to wait till well past MIDNIGHT for the last ballots to be finished because people had to count and recount because they never had their numbers straight. And that's what Danielle Smith calls "trustworthy" counting. In what world does relying on HUMAN ERROR qualify for better "integrity"?
My wife saw many people leave, and others were trying to butt in line. Another friend told me, "The person who had to SIGN EACH BALLOT before she gave them to me said that she had no idea how she was going to be awake for the ballot-counting part of the day. Not exactly reassuring."
