A voter arrives with his children to cast a ballot at a rural poling station in Cremona, Alta. on April 16, 2019.
Melanee Thomas, an associate professor of political science at the University of Calgary, said she never thought she'd see a 70 per cent turnout in Alberta.Voter turnout in the Klein years — from 1992 to 2006 — ranged between 60 per cent in the 1993 election to a low of 45 per cent in 2004."Low turnout like that is a really good indicator of democratic malaise related directly to not actually having competitive elections that changed parties and government," she said.
"In order for turnout to be this high, it has got to be people who normally would not have voted — at least in Alberta historically would not have voted," she said. "For us, we'd hope some of the changes we made to the voting process and the options available for voters to get access to the ballot box may have influenced them and encouraged them to participate," said Westwater.
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