Questions & Answers
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to common questions from municipal clerks, election coordinators, IT teams, and procurement officers evaluating Civic Elections.
Civic Elections supports Ontario municipal general elections (every four years), by-elections for council vacancies, and simultaneous school board trustee elections per the Education Act. The platform manages all elected offices — Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Councillor (ward-based and at-large), and School Board Trustee (English public, English Catholic, French public, French Catholic).
Civic Elections is designed for Canadian municipalities with populations ranging from 5,000 to 100,000+. The platform scales from small single-ward municipalities with a few thousand electors to large multi-ward cities with 100,000+ electors, 50+ polling stations, and 1,000+ election workers.
No — Civic Elections integrates with your existing optical scan tabulators (DS200, DS850, ExpressVote, and others). The platform handles ballot definition programming, logic and accuracy testing, and automated results import from tabulator memory cards. You keep your tabulator investment and gain digital workflow management around it.
Yes. Civic Elections integrates with third-party internet and telephone voting platforms through a unified voter eligibility engine. Real-time cross-channel verification prevents double voting. Results from all voting channels are consolidated into a single results dashboard. The platform is vendor-neutral — it works with any internet voting provider.
Between election cycles, the platform manages by-election readiness, campaign finance compliance monitoring (financial statement filing and review), compliance audit proceedings, voters list maintenance (MPAC data updates), and election planning for the next cycle. The platform is not idle between elections.
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