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Discussion at Talk:Vancouver municipal election, 2018#format of results tables[edit]

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Vancouver municipal election, 2018#format of results tables. Joeyconnick (talk) 18:19, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Threshold of referendum[edit]

I noticed the article doesn't mention what the threshold for success of the referendum is. Compared to 2005, this time, according to the BC Elections handbook (pdf) it states that a simple majority is required. The 2005 referendum referendum had it under questions, so if no one objects, I'll add it there.

Interim Returns[edit]

I have added info concerning the interim returns [1]. These will be updated daily (at least on business days) until Nov 30. If someone has a better way to format this, it would be much appreciated. The info box currently only shows the number of eligible voters and the percentage of turnout, but not the actual number of ballots returned. Cheers--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 00:15, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ballot Cut-off[edit]

@Joeyconnick, Dmehus, and Darryl Kerrigan: In response to this edit, I am not sure it's clear from the source that Elections BC will be accepting ballots postmarked before 4:30PM on December 7th. My interpretation from the information on the Elections BC website (and the referenced Tweet) led me to believe that the ballots needed to be in-hand at one of the listed locations by 4:30PM - not including a Canada Post office. What are your thoughts? Jon Kolbert (talk) 23:53, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Jon. You are right, Elections BC is not counting ballots that were post-marked before Dec 7. They had to be received by Elections BC (in Victoria, or at a Referendum Service Office or Service BC centre).--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 23:58, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Do we have better sources for this stuff? Because I saw a lot of news articles that referred to ballots that hadn't yet been transferred from Canada Post, which does seem to point towards the current wording. —Joeyconnick (talk) 00:01, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

As the voting is over, Elections BC has changed their website and unfortunately the details about ballots needing to be received no longer appears. But see this tweet [2] or this CBC article [3]. Elections BC was quite clear in as the deadline approached that ballots needed to be received by them by 4:30 on Dec 7, not just "postmarked" or mailed. That is why they started recommending people attend at Referendum Offices and Service BC centres instead, per the CBC article.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 00:18, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Individual citizens who registered as referendum advertising sponsors[edit]

Should the article include these? Is it encyclopedic? Or should we just include the organizations and note that there were also private individuals who registered. Including the names of individual people who registered might be overkill (unless they are particularly notable individuals which doesn't seem to be the case here). The fact that political parties, large NGOs and advocacy groups registered is notable, but what is the value in us telling folks that Nelson Allen (citizen) also registered? I think I may have been the one that added at least some of these individuals, rethinking this though.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 01:56, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Deiniftely not. No reason to include individual, non-notable citizens. Bondegezou (talk) 07:41, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]