This recount is particularly critical because if the BC Conservatives flip the riding, the NDP would be reduced to 46 seats, making it a minority government.
Elections BC says human error is the reason for uncounted ballots in the provincial election. There are now calls for an independent review and an all-party committee is being proposed to examine what happened. Richard Zussman has more.Election officials, scrutineers for the BC NDP and BC Conservative Party and a B.C. Supreme Court judge hunkered down at an industrial building in Surrey on Thursday to hand-count ballots for the Surrey-Guildford riding.
Elections BC said it would begin Thursday by examining those ballots, before moving on to the full 19,090 ballots to be recounted.The work is being split up between 10 teams of two Elections BC workers, with the count observed by two scrutineers, one from the NDP and one from the Conservatives. Lawyers are also on site.If a hand-counted ballot is flagged, a representative from each party will look at it.
A concurrent judicial recount in Kelowna Centre was also scheduled for Thursday and Friday. The BC Conservatives lead the NDP in that riding by 38 votes. Elections BC is also conducting a partial recount in Prince George-Mackenzie, where a post-election audit discovered an entire ballot box had gone uncounted. The Conservatives hold a large lead in that riding, and the results of the partial recount are not expected to change the outcome.What Trump’s second term could mean for U.S. diplomacyRead
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