REPORT: Some Ontario PC Leadership Candidates Asking For Manual Recount

The ballots – cast online – have already reportedly been counted once.

If the Ontario PC Party executive was hoping today would go smoothly, it seems they won’t get their wish.

The leadership race has hit a “snag,” with some candidates reportedly demanding manual recounts, and lawyers for the candidates are getting involved:

BREAKING: There is a snag in @OntarioPCParty leadership race. Sources tell the @TorontoStar that lawyers for the four candidates are huddled right now. #onpoli #PCPLdr

— Robert Benzie (@robertbenzie) March 10, 2018

.@fordnation family members leaving their holding room. They don't look happy, but they probably do not know the results yet. #onpoli #pcpoldr pic.twitter.com/FX6yUF3pJZ

— Robert Benzie (@robertbenzie) March 10, 2018

BREAKING: Sources tell the @TorontoStar that lawyers for some leadership candidates are calling for a manual recount of the 64,000 ballots cast online. They have been printed and counted once already. #onpoli #pcpoldr

— Robert Benzie (@robertbenzie) March 10, 2018

Down this dry-ice-smoke-filled corridor lawyers are huddled trying to determine next steps for a party that wants to govern Ontario three months from now. #onpoli #PCPLdr pic.twitter.com/cdvLNa713a

— Robert Benzie (@robertbenzie) March 10, 2018

The results are said to be extremely close, and anything that casts doubt on the process risks party unity going forward.

As Tarek Fatah pointed out, any chaos in the leadership race only helps the Liberals:

Hundreds of @OntarioPCParty gurus & activists working very hard to re-elect @OntLiberal Party's @Kathleen_Wynne as Ontario's next Premier. #onpoli #PCPO #PCPOLDR

— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) March 10, 2018

More updates to come.

Spencer Fernando

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