From Sheila Gunn Reid:
“On October 19, Albertans will cast the most consequential vote in this province's history. The question is whether anyone will be watching when the ballots are counted.
I want you to be one of the people watching.
Alberta's Choice, the third-party advertiser fighting for a fair, independent Alberta, is recruiting scrutineers to observe the referendum count. Scrutineers don't touch a single ballot. They don't decide who wins. They just watch, so that when the result comes in, nobody can credibly say it wasn't overseen.
You don't need to be a political insider. You need to be eligible to vote, responsible, and willing to pay attention for one long, hopefully boring, day.
We need Albertans in the counting rooms on October 19 because mistakes happen, procedures get misunderstood, and rules get applied inconsistently, as we've already seen.
The deadline to sign up is August 24.
Click here to sign up as a scrutineer before the deadline.
Sign up to be a scrutineer for Alberta's-Choice!
If this referendum is close, and it may well be, both sides are going to want confidence in the result. "Trust us" isn't good enough. Farmers, tradespeople, retirees, moms and dads: this is your province and your count to protect, whichever way you're voting.
Please don't wait until August 25 to think about this. By then it's too late.
Sign up now to scrutinize Alberta's referendum count.
For Alberta,
Sheila Gunn Reid
P.S. Alberta's Choice follows every disclosure rule Elections Alberta sets out. Sign up here to help make sure the count itself is beyond reproach.
P.P.S. A scrutineer's job is boring by design: watch the boxes, watch the ballots, go home with nothing to report. That's the goal. But if something does go wrong, we want an Albertan there who saw it happen, not a headline written by someone who wasn't in the room.
P.P.P.S. August 24 is a hard deadline, not a suggestion. If you can't do this yourself, forward this to someone in your life who can. Click here to sign up as a scrutineer before it's too late.
Alberta's Choice is a registered referendum third-party advertiser. Authorized by Alberta's Choice | (780) 800-9577 | Albertas-Choice.com.”