Bloc Québécois candidate for the driving of the Montreal area of Terrebonne says she is evaluating her options after a judicial recount that saw her lose by a single vote.
“After a judicial recount that caused an investment of vote as spectacular as unexpected, I owe myself to evaluate all the options we have before us,” Nathalie Sinclair-I disagree on Facebook on Monday.
“I will keep you informed in the next steps.”
Sinclair-Degagné’s statement occurs when Canada’s elections investigate a possible error that involves a non-condemned vote of a block voter in the terrebonne driving.
The Emmanuelle Bossé voter told Radio-channel that she sent by mail in her vote at the beginning of April using an envelope provided by the Canadian elections, but she was returned as little deliverable.
Canada’s elections says that it seems that part of the postal code printed on the envelope was incorrect and that it is working to gather more data about what happened.
The Liberal Tatiana Auguste was declared a winner about Sinclair-Degagné, the headline, by a margin of a vote after a judicial recount, in an election that returned the liberals to power with a minority government on April 28.
Both parties declined to comment, and the declaration of Sinclair-Dissgagné did not specifically mention the unbounded ballot.
Initially, Auguste was projected that he won the driving by 35 votes after the elections, but Sinclair-Degagné, who was first chosen in 2021, advanced by 44 votes after the validation process after the required selection.
The victory was returned to Auguste on Saturday after the judicial count, with Auguste receiving 23,352 votes and Sinclair-Degagné 23,351.
Liberals fall just the majority
The final result led the liberals to 170 seats in the House of Commons, two less than the 172 necessary for a majority government. The block counting of the block fell to 22. Other judicial counts are ongoing.
Julie Simmons, associate professor of Political Science at the University of Guelph, described the margin of a vote as “exceptionally unusual.” While the judicial count represents the official count of final votes, she said that there is still a process by which candidates or voters can request to dispute the elections in court.
During an electoral procedure disputed, a judge can govern the eligibility of the candidates “or if there was any other irregularity, fraud or corrupt or illegal practices that affected the result of the election,” according to the Canada election website.
While she is not a legal expert, Simmons said there could be a “convincing” argument for an answer in this case because the vote was very close. A successful challenge would result in a paralyzed choice, he said.
An Terrebonne resident, who, says that his ballot could have made the difference, but did not count because he was returned to the sender. There was an error on the label with the address that provided the elections that Canada. Canada elections says that it is investigating and recognizes that the postal code printed on the envelope was incorrect.
Heidi TWorek, director of the Center for the study of democratic institutions of the University of British Columbia, said that the “turns and turns” in Terrebonne show that there are processes to ensure that the result of the vote is as precise and transparent as possible.
“I think the key is A, this is extremely rare, and B, although it is extremely rare that there are many mechanisms to ensure that the vote is free and fair,” he said in a telephone interview.
While “all systems and all people” can occasionally make mistakes “, the question is whether they are admitted, rectified and you have established processes to try to prevent them as much as possible, and try to learn from them so that the next time you prevent any type of errors from happening,” he said.
Richard Lacas, an Terrebonne resident who voted in the elections, said that a partial choice should be held to clarify the vote results. “I think everyone in driving will keep a question if you ever meet,” he said in a telephone interview. “We will have a doubt about whether there were others.”
Lacas, a firm sovereignty, voted liberal for the first time in April because he believed that the party was better located to face the United States during the current commercial war. If a paralyzed choice was held, he said he would vote again block, as he has done in the previous elections, because a liberal victory would not be enough to ensure a majority.
“I wanted the Liberal Party to enter, and that is what happened. So after that I would return to my old love and return to the block,” he said.
