US EditionMissing ballots found at AEC worker’s home
- Nearly 2,000 missing ballot papers from the 2025 federal election in Sydney's Barton seat were found at a temporary AEC worker's home after election night.
- The ballots, secured in a container collected from the Hurstville polling station, were not transported to the Australian Electoral Commission’s main vote counting facility due to an employee error identified during a routine vote recount.
- The container remained sealed and undamaged with all security seals intact, and since all 1,866 votes inside had already been counted, the outcome of the election, won by Labor’s Ash Ambihaipahar, remained unchanged.
- An AEC spokesperson said, "This shouldn't have occurred," and confirmed that investigations aim to prevent a similar issue by examining the materials return process for future elections.
- The AEC launched a thorough inquiry to understand the error, with officials noting it appears unintentional, and the commission expressed deep concern over this failure in ballot handling security.
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Election Worker Found With Almost 2,000 Ballots at Home
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) says it is “deeply concerned” that a worker took almost 2,000 ballots home from a Hurstville polling booth in the Sydney electorate of Barton. The AEC said the incident did not impact polling counts in Barton, where Labor candidate Ash Ambihaipahar won with 66.1 percent of the vote in the seat formerly held by Labor’s Linda Burney. According to the AEC’s investigations, on polling night, all votes were c…
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