Returning Officers' Report of Proceedings Summary – 44th General Election

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Table of Contents

• Acronyms and Terms
• Introduction
• Executive Summary
  • Section 1: Conduct of the Electoral Event
    • 1.1 Training
      • Returning officer training
      • Key staff training
      • Poll worker training
    • 1.2 Recruitment of poll workers
      • Poll worker staffing
      • Recruitment tool effectiveness
    • 1.3 Delivering an election in a pandemic situation
      • Personal protective equipment (PPE)
      • COVID-19 procedures and guidelines
      • Procedures and guidelines from local, provincial, territorial and federal public health authorities
      • Consistency between Elections Canada procedures and guidelines and those of public health authorities
      • Align Elections Canada's various guidelines with those of public health authorities plus Elections Canada's support for emerging situations related to COVID-19
      • Recurring issues related to the pandemic at the polling places
    • 1.4 Products, tools and resources
      • Reception of Elections Canada's required materials
      • The Field Personnel Intranet and ECDocs contained all the necessary information
      • Request for additional funds
      • Elections Canada products and tools effectiveness
    • 1.5 Services to political parties and candidates
      • Political Entities Service Centre (PESC)
      • Support to candidates and campaigns
      • Meetings with political parties
    • 1.6 Revision
      • One-stop service model
      • Effectiveness of revision procedures
    • 1.7 Outreach and accessibility
      • Accessibility issuesl
      • Allocation of resources to community relations officers
    • 1.8 Official languages
      • Pilot project
      • Soliciting organizations representing minority official language communities
      • Bilingual polling divisions
      • Assignment of bilingual poll workers
    • 1.9 Special ballot voting
      • Special Voting Rules process
      • Administering Special Voting Rules identification rules
      • Candidates' representatives observing Special Voting Rules
      • Administering vote-by-mail
    • 1.10 Opening and closing of the polls
      • Efficiency of the opening and closing of the polls
      • Voting at advance and ordinary polling places
      • Lineups at the polls
      • Entering Sequence Number Sheets information
    • 1.11 Returning officer office closing activities
      • Compliance with instructions for the validation of results
      • Advice on the closing procedures for the returning officer office
    • 1.12 Overall
      • Assessment of Elections Canada's level of service during the event
  • Section 2: Statutory Requirements to Report on Proceedings (Section 314 of the CEA)
    • 2.1 Return of election documents
      • State of election documents received from election workers
      • Ballot boxes missing
      • Statement of the Vote missing
      • Additional question: post-event meetings

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