The office of the CEO received only one complaint with respect to voting by special mail-in ballot. A student in Calgary noted that it had taken ten days for her mail-in ballot to arrive and wondered how long it took other students to receive theirs. The mail-in ballots were mailed between the 16th and 19th of November, allowing over two weeks for the ballot to be received by the registered elector and to be returned to the office of the Chief Electoral Officer by the December 3rd deadline.

The Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures agrees that the two-week period may be insufficient depending on the location of the registered elector. The committee believes allowing voting by special mail-in ballots to commence at the close of nominations by offering write-in ballots until such time as regular ballots are available would provide additional time to send out and receive ballots cast by mail.