Yukon Liberal Party candidate Pauline Frost speaks with media following a judicial recount of the riding of Vuntut Gwitchin's results of the Yukon election, in Whitehorse, on April 19, 2021.A lawyer for Yukon’s top election official says the process to authorize a special ballot for a jailed voter in a riding where the Liberal incumbent lost her seat in a tie vote did not breach the territory’s election rules.
Former health minister Pauline Frost tied in the riding of Vuntut Gwitchin with New Democrat Annie Blake, who was declared the winner after the drawing of lots, spurring Frost’s court challenge alleging two people were ineligible to vote there.Wallace told the court that adopting the petitioner’s interpretation of the rules for identification and residency would disenfranchise homeless, incarcerated and transient voters, while threatening public confidence in the system.
Except the rules of common sense; as in, when you on jail, you forfeit the rights, freedoms and liberties enjoyed by those not in jail - including the right to vote.
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