It's election day in British Columbia and there's a lot of mail-in ballots left to count. In this episode, I discuss which ridings are likely to have the most votes to count, and which ones are leaning towards the Conservatives. I also discuss the possibility of telephone voting, and whether or not it should be allowed.
00:00:00.000So last time we talked about the British Columbia provincial election, it was a day after election day and we still didn't know who was actually going to win the election because there were several ridings that were practically tied and we had a lot more mail-in ballots left to count.
00:00:18.660Originally, our mail-in ballot number was 49,000. This includes both mail-in ballots as well as provisional ballots. Some people go directly to returning officers' offices and just writing up their ballot right there. That's totally fine, obviously, but that's a minority of the 49,000.
00:00:37.760But since we reported that, now the amount of ballots that has to be counted has gone from 49,000 to 65,000. I believe it's actually 66,000 at the official count that was released yesterday.
00:00:51.280It's nothing to be concerned about that the ballot number went up. Really, it's just that there are a lot of very rural areas in BC where ballots were being turned in, which were, in fact, picked up and postmarked on October 19th.
00:01:05.140But obviously, if you pick up ballots in Haida Gwaii or somewhere else, it will take you a little while to be able to actually send them to a BC elections depot so that they can be counted.
00:01:18.240The good thing is that the ballots are actually leaning towards the Conservatives.
00:01:22.340But before I get to that number in terms of where the ballots are probably going to be leaning in terms of the vote count,
00:01:28.980I just want to show you the ridings where there is high amounts of mail-in ballots and where they could actually make the difference.
00:01:35.720Because there is totally a chance that the Conservatives either gain a minority government or a majority government.
00:01:41.760In fact, I actually think it's probably a greater than 50% chance that the Conservatives flip at least one seat here,
00:01:48.280considering one of them is currently tied and probably leaning a bit conservative.
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00:02:24.700Anyways, so the riding that really matters right here is Juan de Fuca, Malahat.
00:02:30.980This is the closest riding in this provincial election.
00:02:36.640I think it's 20 or 23, depending on which count you look at.
00:02:39.920And there were 496 ballots here to count from the category of certification envelopes containing mail-in and assisted telephone votes.
00:02:51.760The telephone votes are the things that are concerning to me, at least in the long run, in terms of politics.
00:02:57.440I don't know how you administer a telephone vote, and I do hope that they counted how many were specifically telephone votes in a more detailed breakdown.
00:03:05.900Because I think there is a very good legal case to say that telephone voting should not be real.
00:03:11.520There's no way of verifying the person is actually the person who they say they are.
00:03:15.960They could just take somebody else's ID in the household and vote for them.