BALLOTS FLOWN IN TO 27 LIGHTHOUSES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

Despite their remote locations, Canada's reclusive lighthouse keepers have one of the highest voter turnouts in the country, thanks to a part-time election official who flew in their ballots by helicopter. Vlasta Booth, who usually runs a chocolate shop in Victoria, delivered ballots to 27 lighthouses off the coast of B.C., by chopper last week. Booth, a mother of two who works as a service agent for Elections Canada during federal campaigns, flew in a coast guard helicopter to meet 67 lighthouse keepers and allow them to vote.