Missing furniture, staffing issues delayed results: Elections Alberta

It was a long night waiting for results. Just after 11 p.m., the counts began to finally roll in, and that picture emerged that the majority of Albertans chose option one for Alberta to remain in Canada. Elections Alberta staff are still busy hand-counting those ballots. That process was delayed in certain areas after 106 polling stations did get a late start. Some stations needed a resupply of ballots throughout the day as well. In total, there was 1,400 voting locations yesterday. Of those 106 were delayed opening many of those were roughly in the 10 to 15 minute range but there were a couple of locations that had longer delays and of course to allow everyone the opportunity to vote where there are delays we stay later and so the very last voting location was officially closed at 10:41 last night, it's very typical of any election event there was a range of things that happened um as you can imagine, it scenarios again we're popping up 1,400 locations for a day event and so things like internet connectivity staffing issues you know people get sick there was an incident where furniture was delayed in arriving in one location the setup uh had to be reconfigured and so that led to a delay and of course you know we really appreciate and thank everyone that had to wait