Procedure and House Affairs committee  We're in the very early stages and are obviously still debriefing and looking at lessons learned from the last election, but before this election, when we thought we were going to have provincial by-elections, we had actually received approval from the advisory committee to pilot

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We use tabulation machines in New Brunswick so there's no hand counting to observe.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's a bit of a complicated question to answer. We were very open to providing assistance over the phone if individuals had questions. This is something that came up earlier. We do have, I'd say, a bit of a luxury in New Brunswick in that we have 49 returning offices, so we h

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have to be honest. There hasn't been any consideration of additional services.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We submitted a document with our plan to the chief medical officer of health. Her office provided some minor comments. There really wasn't anything that was difficult to adapt to. We had already prepared what our changes and procedures would be. She simply reviewed those on a cou

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We dealt with a number of those individuals. They could email their application, and then we actually used staff at the returning offices to hand deliver and pick up ballots. It was done in a number of ways. They usually took a ballot box or they put the ballot in the individual'

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll go first on that one. In New Brunswick at the time of the election, individuals were required to wear masks only when social distancing could not be maintained. As the election body, we encouraged all voters to wear masks. I had a lot of, I'll say, “earned media”. I did a l

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm sorry, but I don't have those numbers right in front of me. I don't believe it was significantly different, but I can't say for certain.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct. There may have been a few more mail-in ballots that couldn't be processed, but not a significant number.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. In New Brunswick there is no facial identification process. If you're on the voters list, you say your name and your address. If you're on the voters list, you vote.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We didn't see it having an impact on the conduct of the election itself from our perspective.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely. For example, there was a fire that took out the Internet connection of several polling locations on polling day. We had a location where the power was turned off because the building owner hadn't paid the power bill. We had procedures in place for that. One of ou

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I was facilitating the communication of that documentation from the chief medical officer of health to the parties.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Approximately 380,000. It was just under 380,000.