Voting for a new Liberal leader officially kicked off Monday. And with that comes no lines and no ballot boxes. All it takes is a few clicks.

Voters can cast their ballot through online and telephone polls for a week, but are only available to those who registered before Aug. 19.

All other voters will have to wait until Saturday, Sept. 10th to cast their vote in person.

"We picked online because that's where people live these days," said Corey Hogan with the Alberta Liberal Party. "We have a voting process that is fundamentally failing us. People are not voting."

In Alberta's last election, only 41- per cent of eligible persons voted. May's federal election had a 61-per cent voter turnout.

"Elections recently are won by people who don't vote," said Liberal leader candidate Raj Sherman. "Elections need to be won by engaging the electorate and by people getting out there and voting."

"These leadership votes are a way for us to test drive," said Liberal leader candidate Laurie Blakeman. "To see if it can be expanded into a wider vote for general elections."

This initiative is something Elections Canada is looking at.

They say it's an initiative they would consider in a by-election starting in 2013.

Five candidates are running to replace outgoing Liberal leader David Swann, who stepped down in February.

Raj Sherman, Laurie Blakeman, Bill Harvey, Bruce Payne and Hugh MacDonald are in the running.

A winner will be announced Saturday night.

With files from CTV's Kevin Armstrong