New Brunswick's chief electoral officer hasn't had much time to contemplate all of the lessons learned from Canada's first mid-pandemic election, but one thing is pretty clear. She also had her mask on and readily accepted the hand-sanitizer she was offered at the polling station in Sackville. More than half of all votes in the latest provincial election were not cast on election day at a regular polling station. Mail-in ballotsPoffenroth said changes are needed to make mail-in ballots easier to manage. Election debriefPoffenroth said there are likely several more lessons to be learned from Canada's first pandemic election, but those will be discussed in the coming weeks when she meets with election officials from all 49 ridings during province-wide "post mortems," she said.

Source: CBC News September 15, 2020 20:48 UTC