NDP candidate Morgane Oger's request for a recount in Vancouver-False Creek has been rejected but she'll still get her wish.
Elections BC received two requests for a recount after Oger fell short of toppling incumbent Liberal MLA Sam Sullivan in the May 9 election by 560 votes
BC Citizens First Party candidate Phillip James Ryan’s request for a recount in Vancouver-False Creek was accepted because an advance voting ballot account records 403 votes for one candidate, and the tally sheet and parcel envelope containing ballots for that candidate lists 399, Elections BC announced Saturday.
Oger's request was denied, however, because the Elections Act says that "in cases where the difference between the top two candidates is greater than 100 votes, recount requests must include factual basis that ballots were not correctly accepted or rejected, or that a ballot account does not accurately record the number of votes for a candidate."
Elections BC says Oger’s request for a recount "was not accepted as it did not meet these requirements. Additional information related to the request was received by the deadline, but by the time that it was received Phillip James Ryan’s request had already been accepted."
The final count will take place May 22 to 24.
Oger has not yet conceded the election to Sullivan. “If on [May 22] the number of absentee votes is too small and nothing else comes up, we will certainly concede at that time,” she said on Friday.
Elections BC received six requests for recounts in an election that has yet to be decided. It accepted only one other request, that for Courtenay-Comox where the NDP candidate had nine more votes than the Liberal candidate.
