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Kate 19:00 on 2025-11-14 Permalink Reply  

• Nicholas 19:59 on 2025-11-14 Permalink

  The official site says there were 10 recounts submitted, 7 have been accepted so far and 4 have been confirmed, same winners as before. The rest will be dealt with next week. The confirmed winners are two for each party: EM borough council in Ile Bizard and city council in Villa Marie and PM city council in both CDN and Park Ex. No word on which other ones were accepted, but my guess is the two Lachine ones where EM one in a squeaker were accepted.

  Note that a recount does not have to be accepted, so it could be 7-10 in the end that go to a recount: a judge determines if the person submitting it has pleaded enough things to show the recount has a chance of succeeding using some standard (could be high or low chance, I’m not a lawyer). If you are down by 6 you’re more likely to get it accepted than if down by 300. As well, candidates can have their representatives there on election night and if they think a ballot was miscounted they can make a formal objection that is noted in the poll book. Those objections don’t change the ballot on election night but can help support the judicial request for a recount. Because being a rep is a boring job and campaigns don’t usually pay for it few people do it, but having someone helps protects your rights as a candidate, so they try to put people in districts they think will be close.

• patatrio 00:57 on 2025-11-15 Permalink

  Let’s see what a lawyer with housing tribunal experience can do about the slumlords and renovictors. End of an era for deros, she’s had quite the ride. Always standing up for the local community and jostling with the political scene of each era. There’s a case to be made that her current iteration of supporters led her astray, getting involved in the facebook fanfare instead of talking to what people are living through right now.