EDITORIAL – Tories dropped the ball on electoral system - Grande Prairie Daily Herald Tribune - Alberta, CA

EDITORIAL – Tories dropped the ball on electoral system - Grande Prairie Daily Herald Tribune - Alberta, CA:

It’s election time, a time for voters to have their say. However, the ruling party of the day gets to decide who all the returning officers are, the people who will actually run the election. Many of those people are not nominated until weeks or even days before the election, making it tough to update any reasonable voter’s list.

These things didn’t happen in some banana republic, they happened here in Alberta in the last provincial election, March 3, 2008.

This week, the man who tried to point out these facts, and many other problems with the last election, was fired by the provincial government. Well, technically he wasn’t fired, his contract was simply not renewed, but in political terms he was fired when an all-party committee voted to not renew his contract.