In terms of procedure, the council plans to hold the byelection in a similar way as the byelection held last year, with workers outfitted with personal protective equipment and mandatory masks and social distancing inside City Hall. Voters will be pointed toward one of 11 available polling stations in the main chamber, with whichever poll voters use determined by where they live. Election workers will point voters toward the correct poll. Every voter will be given a golf pencil to tick the box of their preferred candidate, which they will then take with them when they leave the hall. With increased COVID-19 cases throughout Manitoba - including variants of concern cases - organizers are carefully monitoring case loads, particularly in the north, before the election. As of press time, the vote is slated to go ahead as originally planned.