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Supreme Court nullifies Liberal MP's election win by a single vote in Montreal-area riding (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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But Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné, the Bloc candidate, called on the courts to annul the results and call a new election after CBC News reported that a voter had their mail-in ballot returned to them due to a misprint on the return envelope.

Elections Canada acknowledged the error but said the results had already been finalized.

I always thought this was pretty wild that they just shrugged their shoulders and said too bad.

Elections Canada fucked up and it impacted the election. This shouldn't have had to go to the supreme court to fix IMO.

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[–] 7 points 8 months ago

Going to the courts was the right move, I do think Elections Canada followed their election recount process more or less, but the lower courts rejecting the acknowledge human error as not an "irregularity" is a little bit of a judicial blunder.

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    [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Good on Nathalie to ask for another election.

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