Did you hear the latest Elections BC debacle?

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Did you hear the latest Elections BC debacle? You may have already heard yesterday that BC Elections announced they found an entire ballot box that went unaccounted for in last month’s provincial election that BC Conservatives narrowly lost. They also reported about 14 uncounted votes in a riding the NDP won over the Conservatives by just 27 votes. Well, guess what: they’ve released another update, claiming that, actually, it’s not 14 votes — it’s 28 votes! What’s going on? That’s enough to flip a riding from NDP to Conservative. In BC’s 93-seat legislature, the NDP won 47 ridings, the Conservatives won 44, and the Greens won 2. The NDP’s 47 seats were all needed to represent a majority government.

If the Conservatives were to flip one of the ridings, giving the NDP 46 seats, the NDP would no longer hold absolute control over British Columbia's government. In other words, Premier Eby’s NDP would require votes from the Greens or Conservatives to pass legislation.  And more importantly, who is to trust Elections BC at this point in time? First they claim they’ve counted all the votes in a riding, then they say they missed 14, and then they say actually it’s 28?  Who is to say more unaccounted for votes haven’t yet been “found”?  It gets worse than that, though.  Last month, it was discovered that Elections BC let election workers take UNCOUNTED ballots to their PERSONAL HOMES. Now, Elections BC has revealed uncounted ballots during their personal review, but Conservative leader John Rustad is calling for an independent review of this entire mess.