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Originally Posted by Faust
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Conservatives love to suppress votes. It is their best chance to win elections.
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A big stick in the wheel was Form 13, which had election workers writing out addresses and birthdates by hand when voters requested a school board ballot—even if the voter was already on the election register. With a hand count, workers also had to fold and initial three individual ballots, rather than handing voters the single composite paper ballot that was used in 2021 for tallying by tabulators.
“Once the trustee ballot was requested, you had to rewrite the entirety of the voter’s information even though they already have a voter ID,” one election worker told The Sprawl. “If I were a more cynical person I would say this reeks of voter suppression. Make it longer and harder to vote for everyone involved.”
There were reports of it taking between two and a half and five minutes to process each voter. “All those individual little steps did add to the additional processing times,” said city returning officer Kate Martin.
Lines crawled. Some Calgarians gave up and left. Others heard of the delays and didn’t go at all.
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Someday we'll just have a government app on our phones and it'll allow us to vote while at work (sitting on the toilet) and our voter turnout will be 99%.
