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Returning Officers Post-Mortem Sessions 41st General Election

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The following is a summary of topics identified during the 13 post mortem sessions that took place with the returning officers following the 41st General Election, a vital element of the evaluation process.

These post-mortem sessions offered returning officers an opportunity to express themselves on eight key topics, focusing on best practices, challenges and principal issues. Open ended questions were asked, to engage participants in the discussion of various themes. The comments and recommendations collected have been thoroughly compiled in an Excel table. This summary gathers the most frequent commentaries made by returning officers in the various sessions across Canada. It should be noted that this approach was used in order to avoid creating expectations – participants were not asked to provide input in terms of specific priorities, but rather to focus on what worked, lessons learned, required improvements, and best practices.