Claim circulating
"The ballot is structured A or B, not Yes/No."
What's actually true
The answer format is Yes/No. Confirmed by Elections Alberta.
Elections Alberta's official referendum page, citing the Orders in Council issued March 31, 2026, states explicitly that "the response from an elector who votes in the referendum must be either 'yes' or 'no'." Each of the ten questions appears on a separate ballot.
The "A/B" framing comes from analytical pieces that label the two propositions inside the sentence for clarity — "remain a province of Canada" (Proposition A) and "commence the legal process" (Proposition B) — to explain why a Yes/No answer is ambiguous when the question contains two opposing propositions joined by "or". See Leni Spooner, Between the Lines Canada, May 24 2026.
The labels A and B are analytical shorthand used by commentators. They do not appear on the ballot. The ballot itself is Yes/No.
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