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Req # A-2020-00039
Provide copies of any documents, including e-mails, reports, memos, briefing notes, etc., about the use of Dominion Voting Systems electronic voting machines in Canada, since January 1, 2015.Organization: Elections Canada
63 page(s)
December 2020
December 2020
Req # A-2020-00008
Requesting April 1, 2020, to present pandemic working group minutes, staff reports, backgrounders, risk assessments on dealing with voting during pandemic times, including further Canadian and international monitoring. Past evaluations and audits of mail-in ballot usage. Current logistics and specific estimated costs associated with possible widespread use of mail-in ballots in upcoming general elections and by-elections. Any follow-ups and assessments to using electronic registration or voting systems.Organization: Elections Canada
617 page(s)
November 2020
November 2020
Req # A-2020-00033
Requesting complaints made to the returning officer in the riding of Winnipeg Centre during the October 2019 general election and whether police had been called to any polling stations.Organization: Elections Canada
6 page(s)
November 2020
November 2020
Req # A-2020-00036
Please provide all Temporary Help Services (THS) Supply Arrangement (SA) and Standing Offer (SO) callups issued in the National Capital Region for the months of July 2020, August 2020, and September 2020. Please provide copies of contracts and callups.Organization: Elections Canada
0 page(s)
November 2020
November 2020
Req # A-2019-00094
I am interested in mobile polling stations and in ordinary polls in seniors’ residences where a large number of electors reside. I would like to know how many of these two types of polling stations are in each electoral district. The purpose of this request is to obtain a list of polling stations located in seniors’ residences, with information on the electoral district to which they belong. I would like to obtain this information for as many years as possible (from 1997 to 2019, if possible) in .csv, .doc or .txt format. Ideally, I would like to be able to cross-reference this data with the data already available on your website. For example, if you know the numbers of the polling stations located in seniors’ residences (with the number of the corresponding electoral district), I could cross-reference the information myself with the .csv files available on the internet.Organization: Elections Canada
24258 page(s)
October 2020
October 2020
Req # A-2020-00007
Requesting: a) Document describing the criteria for washrooms for the public or elections employees that would make a location ineligible and eligible for being a polling place. b) For the last two federal elections, any records of Elections Canada paying for mobile toilets for polling places. c) For the last two federal elections, any records of complaints about washrooms of polling places.Organization: Elections Canada
147 page(s)
September 2020
September 2020
Req # A-2020-00026
Obtain a copy of any document, including any kind of cost estimate, that Elections Canada possesses that will let me see how much the next election will cost, should the next federal election be called, for example, in 2020 or 2021, in the event that the opposing parties bring down Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government. Also including all extra costs due to the covid-19/coronavirus pandemic for the next federal election (including any briefing notes prepared for the Chief Electoral Officer on a potential federal election in the short-term with this Liberal minority government in 2020 or 2021).Organization: Elections Canada
0 page(s)
September 2020
September 2020
Req # A-2019-00092
Provide a complete copy of each of the notes below from the section on briefing notes for Elections Canada on the Open Government website: Update on a phishing situation to divert a paycheque to EC-2020-01-23 Ref. No.: 2019-100761; Termination of Elections Canada contract 05005-19-0290 and request for financial compensation 2020-01-23 Ref. No.: 2020-101031; Uncollectable debt – Redacted (2) 2020-01-30 Ref. No.: 2019‑100732; Reply to a question in writing 122 2019-12-19 Ref. No.: 2019-100913; New application for registration for a political party – Wexit Canada – now eligible 2020‑01-07 Ref. No.: 2019-100931; Application for registration for a new political party – Parti Patriote 2019‑10-04 Ref. No.: 2019-100377.Organization: Elections Canada
31 page(s)
August 2020
August 2020
Req # A-2020-00002
Provide the 2019 and 2020 records, including briefing notes, and contingency plans, to shift voting to electronic ballots; to shift how individual election riding contests are run without physical polling places; to shift campaign and advertising rules should public health in the context of social isolation or other emergencies change elections campaigning; to shift toward counting electronic ballots and challenging those results; and to shift the needed protections throughout such election voting changes. The COVID-19 crisis in particular has had in other jurisdictions an effect either in their looking at or adopting new ways of voting.Organization: Elections Canada
137 page(s)
August 2020
August 2020
Req # A-2020-00009
Provide any emails to or from anyone at Elections Canada containing a reference to “October 26th” of 2020, and any emails to or from anyone at Elections Canada referring to an election in October of 2020. The range of dates for search of these records is from September 2019 until present. Clarification: only include records of EXCOM members that pertain to a potential Fall election.Organization: Elections Canada
0 page(s)
August 2020
August 2020