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The commission’s board said it will also requesting an independent review of the quality assurance processes to ensure the errors don’t occur again.
The chief electoral officer has apologised for the mistakes and said it was “disappointing they were not picked up in the quality assurance processes and falls short of our expectations”.
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The commission said 620 votes in the East Coast electorate that were included in the preliminary count were not included in the official count.
“The votes were in a ballot box at the electorate headquarters and were missed during the official count. The votes have now been counted and added to the electorate totals,” the commission said in a statement.
The corrections have been made, resulting in 693 votes being added to the total number of party votes cast in the election. Candidate votes have increased by 708.