Discovery of unopened ballots prompts recount in SA seat One Nation won by just 58 votes
Discovery of unopened ballots prompts recount in SA seat One Nation won by just 58 votes
Discovery of unopened ballots prompts new count in SA seat One Nation won by just 58 votes
Electoral commission to count votes in electorate of Narungga after Chantelle Thomas won the seat at the March state election
One Nation’s claim to the seat of Narungga has hit a snag weeks after the South Australian election.
Uncounted ballot papers were discovered on Thursday, forcing a recount in the Yorke Peninsula seat, which One Nation’s Chantelle Thomas won by just 58 votes.
More than 80 unopened papers have turned up, the state electoral commission has confirmed, offering a sliver of hope to the defeated Liberal candidate, Tania Stock.
The commission had already done a recount on the knife-edge seat.