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Ballot employees say Elections Canada put them liable to contracting COVID-19

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September 22, 2021
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Ballot employees say Elections Canada put them liable to contracting COVID-19

A polling station officer says she was petrified of contracting COVID-19 on Monday as a result of Elections Canada didn’t require employees to be absolutely vaccinated or enable them to request proof of a medical exemption from maskless voters.

Mary Rose Amaral says she wished to take part in democracy by working at a Toronto voting station, regardless of being immunocompromised with bronchial asthma, and she or he anticipated Elections Canada to take extra precautions to guard its workers.

She says some voters didn’t put on masks and claimed to have a medical exemption, however employees weren’t allowed to ask for proof to substantiate they really had one.

Arjang Fakhraie says he labored from 8:30 a.m. to midnight at a polling station within the Larger Toronto Space the place he screened voters for COVID-19 signs and helped in organizing the lengthy lineups exterior the placement.

RELATED: Lengthy wait occasions greeting voters at some GTA polling stations

He says the 2 metre-distance rule was successfully forgotten as voters and election employees have been a lot nearer to one another.

An Elections Canada spokesman says the company inspired voters to put on a masks, and required them the place they have been required by the province, territory or area or by the owner of the polling station.

Matthew McKenna says voters who can’t put on a masks for medical causes weren’t mandated to put on one and weren’t requested for a proof apart from in polling stations in Alberta colleges the place proof of exemption is required by the varsity boards.

He says requiring all election employees to be vaccinated would have decreased the quantity of people that apply for jobs with the company and that might have jeopardized the operation of the election.

He says Elections Canada aimed to recruit 215,000 employees on election day, and it was capable of meet roughly 93 per cent of that focus on.

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