More than 800 special tickets issued during the recent federal elections remained by mistake in the office of an officer returning in BC, says Elections Canada.
The agency says that all registered political parties have been informed that 822 special tickets issued by voters in 74 electoral districts throughout the country stayed with the officer returning in the driving of Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam.
Canada’s elections says that the tickets should have been returned to its headquarters before April 28 at 6 pm to allow them to count.
Special tickets include votes made by mail and those cast in person in a Canadian election office.
More than 500 of the ballots left by mistake in Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam were for the electoral district of Port Moody-Coquoquitlam.
Others were for heads throughout the country, including Halifax, Nepean and Vancouver Center.
Canada’s elections says that an initial analysis shows that the results in those 74 districts were not affected by disturbing ballots.
In Port Moody-Coquitlam, Zoe Royer of the Liberal Party was projected chosen with 27,074 votes, surpassing the conservative candidate Paul Lambert, who had 25,126 votes.
The agency says that its initial analysis showed that the problem was caused by “human error” and “a failure to comply with written procedures.”
The electoral director Stéphane Perrault has requested a complete review of the established controls to ensure that a similar situation does not happen again, says Elections Canada.
“My commitment to candidates, political parties and Canadians is that when problems related to the delivery of an election arise, we take all the necessary measures to solve them,” said Perrault in a press release.
