Elections BC discovers missed ballot box

City News is reporting that "Elections BC announced Tuesday that it will conduct an internal investigation following the discovery of an uncounted ballot box. Speaking to media Tuesday morning, the province’s chief electoral officer, Anton Boegman, says the investigation comes after 861 uncounted votes were found during a province-wide review in the Prince George-Mackenzie riding." OK first off WTF. They found a missing box of uncounted ballots.

How does that happen? What do you mean they are uncounted? When all of us voted we put our ballot in a Dominion voting machine and it was counted automatically. Did they lose a Dominion voting machine or did they lose a box of ballots they took out of the machine after it was full? If they did that they would have been counted already. Does this mean it was another mysterious box of mail in absentee ballots? We need clarification.

The Globe and Mail is reporting that "Chief Electoral Officer Anton Boegman announced the finding of the missing ballot box in a statement, saying the discovery was made through the agency’s own internal review process and that the results are being corrected."

OK So if this missing ballot box was found through an internal review then it is pretty obvious we now need an external review because other mistakes are now being reported as well. Recounts in three ridings is not good enough. We need a judicial recount of paper ballots in every riding. We need a separate tally for in person votes and mail in ballots. We also need an external review of how many absentee ballots were requested and how many were received.

Elections BC has revealed that a ballot box containing 861 votes went entirely uncounted, along with 14 unreported votes in Surrey-Guildford—a crucial riding narrowly won by the NDP.

While I am not disputing the final outcome pending remaining judicial recounts, it’s clear that…

— John Rustad (@JohnRustad4BC) November 4, 2024