With less than two weeks until the provincial election, Elections Alberta is short more than 500 polling-day workers for seven Calgary ridings.
"I've done everything I can think of and I still don't have the personnel I need for voting day," said Barry Whistlecraft, a Calgary returning officer.
Elections Alberta, an independent non-political body, needs to hire about 14,000 workers for the March 3 election to staff more than 5,600 polls, but seven ridings in Calgary are short-staffed:
- Calgary-Currie.
- Calgary-Hays.
- Calgary-Lougheed.
- Calgary-MacKay.
- Calgary-McCall.
- Calgary-Varsity.
- Calgary-West.
Spokeswoman Teresa Atterbury said elections officials normally prefer to hire people who live within an electoral division. With the shortage, she said they're asking potential workers to call the voter information centre, which will then direct them to the riding with the most need or the one closest to them.
Polling station workers need to be available to attend a training session and to work from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on March 3 in Calgary.
For more information on duties and pay, which ranges from $170 to $250, call the voter information centre at 1-877-422-8683.
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