Overview
- Elections Alberta says about 290,000 people have applied for special (mail‑in) ballots and has moved the application deadline up to Sept. 25 to allow time for delivery and return.
- Some early mail‑out packages arrived incomplete and declaration forms carried outdated wording, and Elections Alberta said it will reissue corrected materials where needed and will accept ballots with crossed‑out, initialed declarations.
- Officials confirmed all ballots will be hand‑counted, that Question 10 on separation will be counted first, and that results for that question are expected overnight on Oct. 20 with a 48‑hour hard deadline to finish counting all ten questions.
- The agency says it may need roughly 60,000 workers and to print many millions of ballot sheets, a scale that opposition parties say has been strained by recent election‑law changes and funding shortfalls.
- Political campaigns are intensifying: the federal Conservatives launched a 'Conservatives for Canada' remain campaign while the NDP demands corrected mailings and warns administrative errors could prompt legal challenges and disputes over legitimacy.