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The party expects to receive between 70,000 and 80,000 returned ballots by mail, leadership election chief returning officer Rick Orman told Postmedia Monday, from the nearly 124,000 UCP members eligible to vote in the race.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
In-person voting overseen by deputy returning officers is also taking place Thursday morning in Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, Taber and Slave Lake, but those stations aren’t expected to cause any counting delays.Article content “For the last couple of months, we’ve been counting backwards from , making sure everything’s lined up to be completed by then,” Orman said.
“The job of dealing with 70,000 to 80,000 ballots by mail is a big job, but we’re feeling pretty good about where we are now. Our anticipation is the vote in the remote centres won’t be overwhelming, we think we’re set up to deal with it.” Voters had a choice on their ballot to either rank each of the seven candidates in order of their preference, or to choose a single preferred candidate.That means if no candidate secures more than half the vote on the first ballot, the candidate with the least support is eliminated, with their votes redistributed to other contestants in the second ballot based on second choices. That process continues for as many subsequent ballots as are necessary for a winner to be named.
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