The chief electoral officer of Newfoundland and Labrador has postponed voting on Saturday for 18 districts in the province because COVID-19 cases have caused "considerable operational impacts."
Safe election being questioned by Returning Officer
Elections NL has had two workers test positive for Covid-19.
But it’s not just positive cases election NL is up against. Returning Officer Judy Lockyer-Shields, for the district of Conception Bay East – Bell Island, says she doesn’t have enough staff for the 12 voting stations in her district.
Lockyer-Shields, who has been working elections in the province since 2003, says “I don’t know how we can have an election if we don’t have the staff.”
Lockyer-Shields biggest concern is the sanitization that is to happen. She says her district would only be able to run two voting stations with proper sanitization protocols.