B.C.’s chief electoral officer defends election integrity as premier proposes all-party review into counting [Video]

British Columbia’s chief electoral officer says “extremely challenging weather conditions” and a new voting system factored into human errors that saw hundreds of ballots go uncounted in the provincial election — though none were large enough to change results. 

Anton Boegman says Elections B.C. is investigating the mistakes to “identify key lessons learned” in order to improve training, change processes or make recommendations for legislative change to ensure “errors can be prevented in the future.”

Boegman says the issues will be “fully documented” in his report to the legislature on the provincial election, the first held using electronic tabulators. 

The errors prompted B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad to call for an independent review.

On Tuesday, Premier David Eby said his party “will propose an all-party committee …