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murphyj87 Donating Member (570 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 09:59 PM
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Maybe 3 Canadian recounts?
A judicial recount has been ordered after a 25-vote gap between first- and second-place candidates in the riding of Etobicoke Centre. It is the second recount called by Elections Canada following Monday’s national election and a third in northern Ontario is still being considered. Conservative Ted Opitz beat Liberal incumbent Borys Wrzesnewskyj in Etobicoke Centre riding by a mere 25 votes.

The recount will be conducted by a judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario with the completed results to be published on the Elections Canada website. “A judge has four days to respond and sets the date for the recount. The process is usually done within 10 days,” said Elections Canada spokesperson Diane Benson. A judicial recount has also being ordered for the Quebec riding of Montmagny-L'Islet-Kamouraska-Riviere-du-Loup where there was a mere five vote difference between the Tory and NDP candidates.

No decision has been made yet whether a recount will be conducted in the northern Ontario riding of Nipissing-Timiskaming where the spread between votes for the Conservative and the Liberal candidates was 14. Under the Canada Elections Act, a judicial recount is automatically required when the difference in votes between the first- and second-place candidates is less than one one-thousandth of the total votes cast in a riding.
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