Alberta election 2023

[AustralianSwingVoter]

It’s got nothing to do with ideology or suppressing detail (?) it’s purely reflecting the lower rate of turnout on election day itself due to advance voting. And it’s a good thing that Electoral commissions are making it easier to vote to encourage higher turnout! Insisting everyone votes on the day at their own local polling place purely so psephology data is more granular doesn’t serve the greater public interest.
I’m sure this’ll gradually happen in all provinces, as urban Canada especially seems to have an absurdly high ratio of polling stations to population that simply isn’t fiscally justifiable.

(And if you hate the lower granularity of results, you’d hate it here in Australia where we don’t have assigned local polling places and people can just vote wherever happens to be convenient!)

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Knowing that so many people vote in advance these days, they should just assign advanced votes to polling stations/precincts. Isn't this how it's done in some US states? I think NB does this too.

Doing so complicates and delays the counting of advance votes for no real benefit other than psephological curiosity.