{"id":68081,"date":"2026-06-08T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/colossal-undertaking-elections-alberta-recruiting-60k-people-to-work-fall-referendum\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T01:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:21:43","slug":"colossal-undertaking-elections-alberta-recruiting-60k-people-to-work-fall-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/colossal-undertaking-elections-alberta-recruiting-60k-people-to-work-fall-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Colossal undertaking\u2019: Elections Alberta recruiting 60K people to work fall referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Colossal undertaking\u2019: Elections Alberta recruiting 60K people to work fall referendum<\/a>
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Publish Date: 2026-06-08 19:44:00<\/a>
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Elections Alberta is seeking tens of thousands of people to staff the upcoming referendum, in what it calls the largest electoral worker recruitment campaign in the province\u2019s history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The agency said it\u2019s seeking to hire a minimum of 60,000 workers to facilitate the Oct. 19 referendum.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The high number of workers is needed in order to complete the unofficial ballot count within the 48-hour deadline, Elections Alberta said in a news release on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis referendum will be a colossal undertaking and requires Albertans to work together to deliver the upcoming referendum,\u201d said Gordon McClure, Alberta\u2019s chief electoral officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking with us in the coming months provides a great opportunity for students, teams, community groups and Albertans from all walks of life to get involved in the democratic process.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Elections Alberta will print 45 million ballots for the 10-question October referendum. In comparison, during the 2023 provincial general election, 1.8 million ballots were cast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the ballots will feature a question on whether voters in Alberta should remain a province of Canada, or whether the government should start the legal process to hold a binding referendum on separation.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Maskoske, director of election operations for Elections Alberta, said there will be 10 individual ballots on colour-coded paper and 10 individual ballot boxes. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo it helps us at the end of the night to sort all of those ballots that we then have to hand-count,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

A major effort<\/h2>\n

Elections Alberta said this will be one of the largest referendum recruitment efforts ever undertaken in Canada.<\/p>\n

For context, the 1995 Quebec referendum required 57,000 electoral workers to assist the 4.8 million voters and manage polling…<\/p>\n

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