Reply #18: ah-- yeah - another recount-- in CANADA

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Wilson's win confirmed in Coquitlam

By Kate Trotter
The Tri-City News
Dec 02 2005

Maxine Wilson will be sworn in as the 17th mayor of Coquitlam this Monday, Dec. 5 after a partial recount this week confirmed her election.
Defeated mayoral candidate Jon Kingsbury had petitioned for a judicial recount based on the 52-vote difference between him and Wilson. The argument for the recount made by Kingsbury's lawyer Brian Kaminski was that there is no guarantee automatic voting machines are perfect.
"I know of no machine that has 100% accuracy," he told Judge Anthony Spence. "Every machine has a marginal error rate. Any minor error would make a huge difference."
But on five sample polls tested in Port Coquitlam provincial court Wednesday, the machines were found to be 100% accurate.
Judge Spence also heard from lawyers representing mayor-elect Wilson and the city, who argued against a recount.
The city's lawyer, Dan Bennett, offered to have Chris Iskander, a mechanical engineer who checked the accuracy of the voting machines on election day, to testify the machines are accurate. But the judge said the only way to know for certain was to count by hand.

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