Voting at advance civic election polls surge to exceed turnout in 2013

Voting surged at Edmonton’s advance polls this week with a total of 26,198 ballots cast in the 10 days of advance polling, says Edmonton Elections.
“Monday it started to pick up. Yesterday was our highest so far,” said Iain MacLean, director of elections, on Friday.
Close to 12,000 voters headed to the polls in the last three days of advance voting, including 5,184 votes on Friday at ward-based stations, which pushed voter turnout to greater than 13 per cent higher than the 201