Multiple issues led to delays in reporting Saskatoon elections results [Video]

Elections Saskatoon experienced a few issues Wednesday night, which translated into significant delays in reporting voting results for the 2024 civic election.

Prior to polls closing at 8 p.m. Wednesday, the city was confident much of the results would be posted on its online portal by roughly 9 p.m., but as City Hall was abuzz with journalists and elections workers, nearly two hours passed by before the first set of unofficial results were available online.

“I underestimated the amount of time it would take to download the data from those machines. So not only did it take time for us to close the polls at 8 p.m., now it’s taking that similar amount of time to upload the results into our election results web page, Saskatoon returning officer Shellie Bryant said of the first batch of advance polls.

“So, yeah, it’s unfortunate that it’s taking so long.”

Unofficial results were being printed on long narrow tickets, which were then …