wa senate recount - 1375 ballot papers lost, page-5

The AEC really need to lift their game.....

Tis is really not acceptable!

The Greens have every right to be furious about this.

"Senator Ludlam said the result should not be declared until the votes were found and while Mr Keelty was conducting his investigation.
"We do feel completely justified in calling the recount in the first place," he told reporters in Sydney.
The Greens senator said he wasn't able to speculate on why the papers had gone missing.
"This has come out of the blue," he said of the missing papers.
Senator Ludlam has previously said his scrutineers found "handfuls" of wrongly assigned votes during the recount.
ABC election analyst Antony Green suggested on Thursday that WA voters could be headed towards the first Senate byelection.
He said the missing votes were almost certainly down to an administrative error but noted that another Senate vote would be an ''acute embarrassment" for the AEC.
"It's entirely possible that the vote would have been the same [with the missing votes included] but the problem is the the ballot papers cannot be verified," Mr Green said.
The AEC says it will shortly declare a result for the WA recount, but added it would "strongly consider whether any petition to the Court of Disputed Returns is necessary".

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/wa-senate-recount-in-turmoil-as-1375-votes-go-missing-20131031-2wjub.html#ixzz2jH4VyXb5