There are also list clerks in Quebec City too. There's a form that's distributed to the parties. They're called the “pale” forms, and the returning officer pays for them.
Another attempt was made in the context of municipal elections to computerize the lists. The problem arose with one of the companies that supplied the system. The advantage of that was that the political parties or candidates had received hourly computerized statements containing all the information as well as the names of the electors who had voted.