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Elections Alberta validates Stay Free Alberta's successful Alberta independence petition

EDMONTON — Elections Alberta declared Stay Free Alberta's independence referendum petition successful on Friday after counting the petition's signatures and confirming that they exceeded the threshold required to trigger a referendum.

Friday's announcement comes after Elections Alberta combed through the petition's signatures and determined that, within a 95% confidence interval, Mitch Sylvestre's group obtained 222,597 signatures.

Stay Free Alberta's petition called for a constitutional referendum asking Albertans, "Do you agree that the Province of Alberta should cease to be a part of Canada to become an independent state?”

The petition is now on hold, per a court ruling, as the Court of King's Bench conducts a judicial review to determine whether to reverse a court decision to quash the petition.

The Citizen Initiative Act requires that a petition have 177,732 verified signatures to be declared ...

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