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Newfoundland and Labrador’s New Democratic Party has filed a legal challenge to last month’s provincial election, alleging widespread irregularities with mail-in balloting and asking a judge to toss out the results.
The constitutional challenge comes after the pandemic-delayed vote
saw
one of the lowest turnouts ever in a Canadian provincial election. A COVID-19 outbreak forced the last-minute cancellation of all in-person voting, and just 48 per cent of eligible voters ended up casting a ballot.
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Nearly a month after Newfoundland and Labrador’s provincial election was derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic, officials say the counting of the ballots has begun at least for those that have been returned.
Ten teams of two people have begun the laborious process of tallying ballots, Elections NL spokeswoman Adrienne Luther confirmed Saturday.
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Rough estimates from Newfoundland and Labrador’s elections authority indicate it could be April before a winner is declared in the province’s chaotic pandemic vote – almost two months after the original election day.
Elections NL spokeswoman Adrienne Luther said Monday she expected her office will begin counting votes later this week, and last election’s experience indicates it could take a while. “There’s no easy way to estimate a date of conclusion because it’s entirely dependent on how many [mail-in ballots] we get back,” Ms. Luther said in an e-mail.
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Newfoundland and Labrador’s chief electoral officer granted residents more time to participate in the province’s all mail-in general election on Sunday amid calls from some party leaders for more transparency around the process.
Voters now have until Feb. 19 to submit their applications for mail-in ballots, Bruce Chaulk said a statement in which he moved the date back from Monday’s original deadline. The date to turn in completed voting kits has also been pushed back to March 5.
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Sarah Stoodley figures she’s already lost half a day of campaigning going back and forth with police about some of the disturbing e-mails she’s received.
Ms. Stoodley, a Liberal, is running in the Newfoundland and Labrador provincial election to reclaim her seat in the St. John’s district of Mount Scio. Before the election was called late last week, she was a cabinet minister responsible for three portfolios.