Electronic voting is available across the province starting Thursday.
Nominations closed at the end of day Wednesday for the Nova Scotia provincial election.
That means from now until the Saturday before election day, you can use e-ballots to vote in person at a returning office.
Additional locations will be open on specific dates later this month.
The e-ballots will allow for faster counting once polls close so we can learn who won more quickly and efficiently, according to Elections Nova Scotia.
Elections Nova Scotia says the tech is safe and secure.
Here’s how they work:
Once you get to a voting station and register, you’ll get a ballot envelope with a barcode on the back.
Then you head behind the regular voting screen, where you’ll use a tablet to scan the barcode.
The tablet will show your local candidates, and you’ll vote on the screen.
And like that, the digital vote is cast.
However, a printer will also print a physical ballot as a backup.
Simply put it in the the ballot envelope, talk to the nearby elections officer, and put the backup vote in the ballot box.
On election day, voters will still use paper ballots.
Before the nomination deadline, Elections Nova Scotia says more than 10,000 people had already cast a vote using write-in ballots.
