B.C.’s chief electoral officer Anton Boegman said a missing ballot box of 861 votes that were not counted in the recent provincial election was the result of a local team’s oversight.
The ballot box was used in advance voting polls in the electoral district of Prince George-McKenzie, Boegman said at a Nov. 5 news conference.
“After the first day of advanced voting, all ballots from that station, they were taken out of the tabulator ballot box, and they were securely stored in a sealed ballot box at the district office,” he said.
An error at that station led to a recount, during which Elections BC staff recounted the advance votes, but overlooked the one box….