Alberta will give prisoners in provincial jails the right to vote as part of sweeping changes to its Elections Act.
By making the change, Alberta will be complying with a 2002 Supreme Court of Canada ruling on prisoners' voting rights.
The new legislation will also take the politics out of selecting returning officers by having the chief electoral officer make these appointments.
That change comes after some pointed criticism from Lorne Gibson, the province's former chief electoral officer.
The legislation will also require more detailed reporting of third-party campaign advertising and broader powers of investigation for the chief electoral officer.
But the government has rejected some recommendations made by Mr. Gibson before he was ousted last year, including fixed election dates and disclosing major donors to political leadership campaigns.