{"id":7221,"date":"2022-02-01T22:48:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T06:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/?p=7221"},"modified":"2022-02-01T22:56:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T06:56:34","slug":"we-are-deeply-sorry-says-susan-torosian-of-elections-canada-admitted-205k-votes-not-counted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/2022\/02\/01\/we-are-deeply-sorry-says-susan-torosian-of-elections-canada-admitted-205k-votes-not-counted\/","title":{"rendered":"We are deeply sorry says Susan Torosian of Elections Canada admitted 205K votes not counted"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Just because you voted in September\u2019s election, that doesn\u2019t mean it was counted.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Elections Canada officials admitted Monday more than 200,000 mail-in ballots were not counted, says Blacklock\u2019s Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    The number of ballot kits that were late, cancelled or marked as lost in the mail was greater than the margin of victory.<\/p>\n

    \u201cWe are deeply sorry for any elector who was unable to vote on election day,\u201d said Susan Torosian, executive policy Director for Elections Canada.<\/p>\n

    Figures on wayward ballots were detailed in a report tabled in Parliament.<\/p>\n

    The agency sent ballot kits to 1,274,447 electors who asked to vote by mail. Of those only 1,068,543 were returned and counted.<\/p>\n

    The difference of some 205,000 uncounted ballots included 90,000 \u201creturned late and not counted\u201d and another 114,583 that were never returned. By comparison, the margin between Liberal and Conservative candidates nationwide totaled 190,790 votes<\/p>\n

    Blacklock\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0at the time of the September 20 election documented cases in which electors applied for ballots by mail, but never received them in time to vote.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThe point is absolutely valid,\u201d Michel Roussel, deputy chief electoral officer, said.<\/p>\n

    Ballots mailed out \u201cfive days, six days before the election date, that\u2019s a tight deadline,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

    The report identified other anomalies in the first pandemic election in Canadian history.<\/p>\n

    \u201cOn September 21 Elections Canada was advised of one electoral district, Mississauga-Streetsville, Ont., where 1,589 special ballots from electors voting from within the electoral district had accumulated in a commercial mail room outside the control of the returning officer,\u201d wrote staff.<\/p>\n

    \u201cBecause these ballots were received after the September 20 deadline they were not counted.\u201d<\/p>\n

    In other cases, building owners who agreed to lease space to Elections Canada for polling stations withdrew the contracts.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cThis forced returning officers to identify new places and secure leases within a very short time,\u201d wrote staff.<\/p>\n

    As a result, the number of polling stations across Canada was cut 7% and \u201cresulted in bottlenecks and lineups,\u201d said the report.<\/p>\n

    In First Nations, electors in 274 of 635 reserves had to drive to another town to cast ballots.<\/p>\n

    The riding of Kenora, Ont. did not have any election day polling stations in three First Nations communities.<\/p>\n

    The agency overall received thousands of complaints over its conduct of the election.<\/p>\n

    \u201cAs of December 14 Elections Canada had received 9,410 complaints,\u201d wrote staff.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThe majority of them were related to accessibility, voter experience, long lines and interactions with poll workers and voting by special ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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