The 28th Saskatchewan general election will be held on Monday, April 4, and Elections Saskatchewan is currently searching for workers to help ensure the election runs smoothly.
“One thing we need still is workers,” Tim Kydd with Elections Saskatchewan said. “There are a few areas where we’re light and Cannington is one of them.”
“We need 10,000 workers total in the province for April 4, and we need more to work during the advanced voting days from March 29 to April 2. In Cannington we need 220 people for the day because it’s a rather large constituency running from Fillmore and Creelman down to the borders, so it includes many communities.”
Currently Kydd says there are under 100 workers who have offered their time to help, but are in need of more.
There are four different positions Elections Saskatchewan is attempting to fill including an Information Officer who greets people at the door and ensures they have the proper identification, a Registration Officer to check unregistered voters in on the day of, and the Deputy Returning Officer and Poll Clerk who work together in handing out ballots, keeping an eye on the ballot box, crossing names off the voters list, ensuring ballots are placed into the box, and counting the ballots as well.
“We do have over 90 percent of eligible voters on the list, which we’re happy about, but the Registration Officer is important if someone is not registered,” Kydd explained.
To ensure you’re registered to vote visit www.elections.sk.ca/voterregistration/
For those interested in being part of democracy in action and helping facilitate Election Day in Saskatchewan visit www.elections.sk.ca/takepart and click on “Express Your Interest.” By filling out the form and submitting it to Elections Saskatchewan it is forwarded to the Returning Officer who will contact those interested to find out when they are available to work, if they’ve ever worked an election before, etc…
Expressing interest to work can also be done by calling 1-877-958-VOTE (8683).
