Following a survey published Wednesday in The dutywhich reveals irregularities in the counting of votes in Section 144 of Saint-Laurent, MP Marwah Rizqy is calling for an investigation by the Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec.
” [Il] is important to protect the integrity of the electoral process and if there is an error, to correct it and above all, to learn from this error so as not to reproduce it”, she wrote on her Facebook page in reaction to the publication.
According to the results released by Elections Quebec, 82 citizens voted for Bloc Montreal on October 3 in a neighborhood of Old Saint-Laurent. This is the highest number of votes recorded for this party in the entire province.
The Liberal Party of Quebec, for its part, received only four votes. However, about fifteen voters met while going door to door swear hand on heart to have supported the candidate of the PLQ, Marwah Rizqy.
Even if a “manifest error” was made, the member for Saint-Laurent does not intend to request a judicial recount because, according to her, “the conclusion sought must be the cancellation of the election! “. She adds that “as a lawyer and an elected official”, she is “well aware that our courts are overcrowded and taxpayers’ money must be well invested”.
A power that belongs to the courts
Marwah Rizqy was elected more than 10,000 votes ahead of her main opponent. The potential gain of a few dozen votes would not change the outcome of the election.
Élections Québec certified the validity of the election results in polling division 144 twice after The duty revealed to him the fruits of his collection in the field. ” [Les] results broadcast correspond well to the official results as established during the counting of the votes, ”wrote the spokesperson for Elections Quebec, Gabriel Sauvé-Lesiège, by email.
No representative of the PLQ or BM was present during the counting of the votes. In response to the investigation of To have toElections Quebec claimed that it did not have the power to intervene to carry out a recount in order to validate the outcome of an election, since this power belongs to the courts.
“Anyone who has reasonable grounds to believe that a statement of the count is inaccurate can ask the court to recount the votes,” explained by email the spokesperson for Élections Québec, Gabriel Sauvé-Lesiège.