Thanks, Mr. Chair. I move that this committee recommends that the Chief Electoral Officer undertake a review of best practices on election reporting and return to the Legislative Assembly within six months with the findings of that review and any potential amendments to the Elections and Plebiscites Act. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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In the Legislative Assembly on March 30th, 2021. See this topic in context.
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Thanks, Mr. Chair. This issue was raised by OpenNWT. I want to compliment the Chief Electoral Officer. For anybody who has seen her reports, there is a lot of detail in there. There are some good graphics and so on that she has developed and presented over time, but the style and content sort of changes from one report to the next. Sometimes, it is hard to track trends and so on over time. There were also some issues around how absentee ballots are reported, including electronic ballots and mail-in ballots. That arose in the last election. What this does is ask the Chief Electoral Officer to go and do some work and see how this is done in other jurisdictions to make sure that we can learn from that, take the best practices, and apply them here. That work will come back, and we will have another chance to look at it in six months or sooner. Thanks, Mr. Chair.
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Some Hon. Members
Question.
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The Chair Rocky Simpson
Question has been called. All those in favour? Opposed? Abstentions? The motion is carried.
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Mr. O'Reilly.