[6] Both of the referendums passed, though neither reached the 50 per cent turnout required to make the results legally binding.

[7][8] In 2020, the provincial government passed Bill 218, the Supporting Ontario's Recovery Act, which, among other things, eliminated the option of ranked balloting for municipalities.

Across Ontario, over 150 municipalities conducted their elections primarily online, with physical polling stations either abandoned entirely or limited to only a few central polling stations for voters who could not or did not want to vote online.

According to Dominion the company's colocation centre provider imposed a bandwidth cap, without authorization from or consultation with Dominion, due to the massive increase in voting traffic in the early evening, thus making it impossible for many voters to get through to the server between 5:00 and 7:30 p.m.[11] All of the affected municipalities extended voting for at least a few hours to compensate for the outage; several, including Pembroke, Waterloo, Prince Edward County and Greater Sudbury, opted to extend voting for a full 24 hours into the evening of October 23.

[20] A by-election was held on June 3, 2021, in Ward 2 to fill the vacancy of Roger Geysens who retired.

The "yes" side won decidedly with 62%, but the turnout to make the referendum binding did not reach the 50% mark.