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Posted: May 22, 2021 6:00 AM MT | Last Updated: May 22
Sheila Johnstone with the City of Calgary displays one of the mobile privacy folders Calgarians used to vote in the 2017 municipal election. Strathcona County plans to use a similar system for its drive-thru voting station in the 2021 municipal election.(Monty Kruger/CBC)
Voting from a vehicle will be possible for the first time in Strathcona County this fall.
The county plans to offer drive-thru voting at the Broadview Enviroservice Station in Sherwood Park in advance of the October 18 municipal election.
Jacqueline Roblin, Strathcona County s manager of legislative services and contract management, said plans for the drive-thru voting station predated the pandemic but the health crisis has heightened the need for spreading out voters.
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Voting will be just as easy as grabbing your morning cup of coffee or at least, that’s what the county is hoping.
For the first time in Strathcona County’s history, drive-thru voting will be an option during the upcoming municipal election this fall.
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Mavis Nathoo, the county’s director of Legislative and Legal Services, recently informed council of this intriguing development.
“We are hoping for some downturn in the curve (of the pandemic), but we are preparing for a worst-case scenario basis for the election,” Nathoo told elected officials last month.