Sweeet! :DDD
No, it was volunteer, at least for the party I was working with provincially- parties send their own people to the vote count to look over.
BC Liberals probably do things differently, they paid people to go door to door, used an 'election firm'. It seemed odd, as if the party didn't exist on a personable level, but rather it was just some ambiguous machine... The Greens work the same way, you never see them.