Who Really Decides an Election When One Ballot Goes Missing?

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Gavin and Stephen explore the implications of a missing mail-in ballot in a closely contested election in Quebec.

Send us Fan Mail What happens when one vote decides an election and that vote never makes it to the ballot box? Gavin and Stephen dive deep into a razor-thin electoral result in Terrebonne, Quebec, where a federal seat was won by a single vote. But here's the twist: a mail-in ballot that could have tied the race was rejected due to a postal code error, an error made not by the voter, but by an Elections Canada official. Drawing on their own high-profile experience in the Opi...

People in this episode

Hosts: Gavin, Stephen

Topics covered

• elections
• voting
• politics
• mail-in ballots
• Canada
• electoral process

Keywords

• election
• vote
• Terrebonne
• mail-in ballot
• Elections Canada
• postal code error
• political commentary

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Elections Canada

Places: Terrebonne, Quebec

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