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Smither council calls byelection for new mayor

The Byelection for a new Smithers mayor has been officially called. 

During a special open meeting Wednesday, Council appointed Chief and Deputy Chief Election Officer. 

A general voting date must now be set within 80 days,which makes Oct 17 the last possible date to have the election. 

Deputy Mayor Gladys Atrill has been the only candidate so far to show an interest in running for the mayor position. 

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The byelection was called in March but was rescinded a week later because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

As part of Phase 3 in BC’s Restart Plan the province and the Town lifted the restriction on byelections.

In a statement Wednesday the province announced some safety protocols for voting:

  • Offering enhanced mail-ballot voting options
  • Offering additional advanced voting opportunities
  • Selecting and setting up a voting place for physically distant, in person voting
  • Reducing high touch interactions for voter registration, solemn declarations and signing voting books
  • Managing curbside voting or special voting opportunities to improve access to voting. 

Smithers has been without a mayor since November after Taylor Bachrach won the federal election. 

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Lindsay Newman
Lindsay Newman
News Reporter Lindsay joined the MyBulkleyLakesNow news team in 2019. She was born and raised in Cambridge, Ontario where she then moved to Toronto to complete Journalism school at Humber College where she graduated in 2017. Lindsay started her news journey at 680 News- Toronto's largest talk radio station. Lindsay then moved on to 680 News, where she was an audio editor. She has always loved the idea of living in British Columbia since she was a teenager and was excited to make the to move out to Smithers, BC to branch out her journalism skills. In Lindsay's spare time she is usually relaxing with her two cats and in the warmer months going on hikes with her friends and partner.

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