Maybe I can make some quick comments, and Dr. Werker can then add to them.
Our premise was that elections.... We know much more now about COVID than we knew in March. We know that people are most infectious in the two days before symptoms and the two days after symptoms, and many young people can have very mild symptoms. We know that testing and symptoms alone are not sufficient to promote safety during voting or any other activities in the public sphere that are essential, such as grocery shopping or going to school.
We were working, along with Elections Saskatchewan, to make sure that processes were such that even if someone was infectious, the risk of transmission would be minimal. My understanding was that each polling location would have a record of the staff who worked there on specific days and would be able to either communicate through a public service announcement, if there was a need to contact people who had voted there in person, or have a record of who voted at a particular location.
I'll see whether Dr. Werker has further information on this, or whether Elections Saskatchewan can confirm. I would like to reiterate that the way it was done, even if they needed to do a public service announcement and reach out, the expectation would be that the process works in such a way that there would be minimal infection of others, based on physical distancing, mask use, hand hygiene and other measures—the layers of protection already in place.
Thank you.