Mr. Proulx and Mr. Chairman, in the documentation I provided to the Clerk, there is a copy of the forms that are used, that are referred to as bingo cards. Several copies of these cards are given to the electoral list officers. They can be given up to three of these forms, which include carbon copies. In other words, whenever you fill in a space, the information is automatically recorded on the three or four copies that are underneath.
This is what our electoral list officers do. When someone comes in to vote, there is a number on the electoral list that corresponds to that elector. So, the poll clerk tells the electoral list officer what that person's number is and the electoral list officer simply blacks out the number corresponding to that voter on the form.
At regular intervals, approximately every half hour — once again, it ultimately depends on what the political parties want — the people responsible for collecting this information on behalf of the political parties or independent candidates come and collect it, and then everything is handed over to the officer in charge of information and order in each polling station. He hands that information over to the party representatives, who then use it for the purposes that you are already aware of.