The City of Montreal plans to hire thousands of people to work on the municipal election this fall because electronic voting machines won't be used to tally results.
Montreal municipal election spokesman Pierre Laporte said the city will need as many as 14,000 workers on election day to manually count votes, at an increased cost of $300,000.
The city has decided not to use electronic voting systems in the 2009 election because of problems in the 2005 election.
The electronic system used in 2005 was full of bugs, and caused several errors, forcing election officials to extend voting hours in some polling stations.
The province's auditor general investigated the problem and later recommended Quebec drop electronic voting systems in municipal elections.
In 2005, about 6,500 workers were hired to help count ballots.
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