{"id":39822,"date":"2015-01-26T14:40:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T06:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=39822"},"modified":"2015-01-26T19:07:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T11:07:27","slug":"manitoba-ndp-will-permit-some-mail-in-and-electronic-voting-in-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/26\/manitoba-ndp-will-permit-some-mail-in-and-electronic-voting-in-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba NDP will permit some mail in and electronic voting in leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39890\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ellen-Olfert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39890\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ellen-Olfert.jpg\" alt=\"Manitoba NDP Leader Ellen Olfert (screenshot from Winnipeg Free Press footage)\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ellen-Olfert.jpg 635w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ellen-Olfert-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manitoba NDP Leader Ellen Olfert (screenshot from Winnipeg Free Press footage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WINNIPEG &#8212; Manitoba&#8217;s New Democrats will now allow some delegates for their March leadership contest to vote electronically or by mail.<\/p>\n<p>NDP president Ellen Olfert said in a short statement on Sunday the party&#8217;s provincial council has voted to make mail-in or electronic voting available for northern delegates who aren&#8217;t able to travel to Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>The decision is a reversal of one by the party executive earlier this month which said delegates must vote in-person at the convention.<\/p>\n<p>Olfert says the council has directed the party&#8217;s provincial secretary to organize a secure voting system for the constituencies of Flin Flon, Kewatinook, Swan River, The Pas and Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>The leadership vote is being held March 8 following a caucus revolt against Premier Greg Selinger.<\/p>\n<p>All three leadership candidates &#8212; Steve Ashton, Theresa Oswald and Selinger &#8212; said they supported options to allow for remote voting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG &#8212; Manitoba&#8217;s New Democrats will now allow some delegates for their March leadership contest to vote electronically or by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":39890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-politics","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}