Former UBCM president calls B.C. snap election a ‘party foul’ that could have waited
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VICTORIA — A British Columbia municipal leader says the snap provincial election at the end of October is a “party foul” that is already soaking up staff and attention from city and town elections already scheduled for Oct. 17.
Cori Ramsay, a former Union of British Columbia Municipalities president who is running for council in Prince George, says the chief election officer in her community is “pulling his hair out” because workers hired for the local election are rescinding their contracts for better-paying provincial election jobs.
Ramsay posted on social media that she is “saddened to learn local election workers are hopping to to the provincial election and leaving municipalities in the lurch.”
The municipal leader says in an interview that municipalities will be left scrambling to find and train staff to run the local election, whose general voting day of Oct. 17 falls into the advanced voting period for the provincial election of Oct. 16 to Oct. 21.
