By Cheryl Jahn

Mail-In Referendum Ballot Concerning

Sep 25, 2018 | 4:22 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – Registration cards are showing up in local mailboxes to ensure voters are ready to vote on electoral reform. But there are some concerns about using a mail-in ballot to get the vote.

“In recent political history, BC has had two experiences in doing mail-in referenda,” explains Jason Morris, UNBC Political Scientist. “The first was 2002. There were a number of questions related to, it was called a “Relationship with First Nations” and it didn’t work very well.”

He says voter turned was about 36% and 20,000 ballots had to be rejected for not signing it, for not filling in an envelope.

The second referendum was under the Gordon Campbell Liberals around the Harmonized Sales Tax.

 “But we also had a postal strike during that time, when ballots could come in and there was still something like three thousand ballots which could not be counted because people were confused about how to do it.”

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