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Most Canadians comfortable with an election amid coronavirus — what would it look like?

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Conservative party has said triggering a fall federal election is not a “priority,” Elections Canada is still preparing for that possibility amid the coronavirus pandemic.And if a fall election were to happen, a new Angus Reid poll shows that more than half of Canadians would be comfortable voting in person.The poll released Thursday showed that 43 per cent of respondents would be “completely comfortable” casting an in-person ballot.

Thirty per cent said they would be “more comfortable than uncomfortable.” Seven per cent of the respondents said they were “completely uncomfortable” with it, while 20 per cent said they would be “more uncomfortable than comfortable.” Conservative Leader O’Toole says triggering fall election ‘not my priority’ .

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