Former Minister for Small Business Fran Bailey has applied for a recount after the Australian Electoral Commission announced that Labor’s Rob Mitchell had been elected to the seat of McEwen by just five votes. She was formerly told the margin was seven votes, indicating that the AEC had ‘found’ two votes in her favour.
"My campaign manager was notified that even though the counting was meant to be completed on Saturday night, they have found another two votes for me, so I'm now five votes behind," Bailey reported. "Missing ballot papers, to lack of security of ballot papers, to ballot papers being accepted that were not official ballots, look there are just far too many questions about this whole process.”
Rob Mitchell implied that he would claim victory only when officially appointed but said if Bailey forced a by-election, he was confident she’d be voted out. "It's not over till it's over," he said.
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