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Recount of Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore riding begins Tuesday. Here’s how it works:
An initial count by Elections Canada found Kusmierczyk had lost to Conservative candidate Kathy Borrelli by 233 votes, but after being revised, the lead fell to 77 votes.
It’s been estimated it could take three days to recount the 70,546 votes cast, which includes 536 rejected ballots.
Matthew McKenna, a spokesperson for Elections Canada, said the process will include Justice MacFarlane, representatives from the candidates in question, and individuals from his agency.
They will re-examine each ballot cast in the riding through the 2025 federal election and ensure the final tally was correct.
“They’ll also look at the ballots that were rejected, so the ones that were marked in a way that election workers determined it was impossible to interpret the intention of the elector,” McKenna explained.
They’ll make sure that those that were rejected should have been.”
In the event there’s a dispute over a rejected ballot, the judge will hear arguments and make a ruling, he said.
During the appeal for a judicial recount, a lawyer for Kusmierczyk cited affidavits from 14 party scrutineers who said they witnessed a ballot be wrongfully rejected.
Lydia Miljan, a professor of political science at the University of Windsor, told CTV News there’s no certainty in who will come out on top.
“I think we can expect that anything can happen,” Miljan said.
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