A suspicious number of multiple returns — defined as more than one postal ballet pack returned from a single voter — were flagged in Whittlesea City Council Lalor Ward and Knox City Council Baird Ward elections.
The legitimacy of two Victorian Local Government elections has been called into question after a large number of duplicate votes were detected from mailed ballot packs.
The suspicious number of multiple returns — defined as more than one postal ballet pack returned from a single voter, or purporting to be from a single voter — were flagged in Whittlesea City Council Lalor Ward and Knox City Council Baird Ward elections. "To those who seek to subvert our electoral process, there will be consequences. We will detect your efforts, and you will be caught," he said.
"That's a matter for the investigation, we simply don't know that, and of course the ballet is secret, so we simply don't have that investigation knowledge at the moment.In the Lalor Ward, only 39 votes separated the winner, Stevan Kozmevski, and runner up Ellen McNaught.Mr Bluemmel said there was no indication the situations in Lalor Ward and Baird Ward were connected.
Local Voting Irregularity Integrity Electoral Commissioner Sven Bluemmel
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