NEWS RELEASE

Municipal and School Board Elections - Election Night Coverage

(Friday, October 17, 2008)- Tomorrow, Saturday, October 18th, Municipal and School Board elections will take place in HRM, as well as across Nova Scotia.
Polls open at 8:00AM and close at 7:00PM

For up to the minute unofficial HRM election results in real time visit www.halifax.ca/election following the close of polls at 7:00pm.

Media interviews related to the Election process will be available at City Hall from 7:30pm to 10:00PM by contacting James Campbell, HRM Corporate Communications at 490-6531.

For interviews with candidates, please contact individual campaign offices directly.

HRM wishes to remind residents that there are a number of road construction projects that are ongoing in HRM and to allow extra time to get to your polling station or choose an alternate route if having to travel through a construction zone. Every effort has been made to have reasonable access to the polling stations. Public Service Announcements have gone out regarding the construction areas. For a list of road construction projects in HRM, please refer to the HRM website at http://www.halifax.ca/designcon/cons/index.html and click Capital Projects.

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Contact:
James Campbell
Project Manager
HRM Corporate Communications Office
490-6531/476-5885

Deborah Story
Manager
Marketing, Design, & Print Services
Corporate Communications
490-6787