More uncounted votes discovered in SA a month after state election

More uncounted ballots have been discovered a month on from the South Australian state election — the second such instance in less than a week.

The ballot papers, for both the upper and lower houses of state parliament, are from the electorates of Enfield and Newland, the Electoral Commission of SA (ECSA) said.

Both seats were safely won by Labor, and ECSA said the number of votes “would not have affected any House of Assembly seat” — but it did not confirm how many had been found.

It said the newly discovered upper house ballots would be “included in the Legislative Council count, which is due to be finalised on 1 May”.

The revelation of uncounted votes is the second such incident in SA, coming after the state’s Electoral Commission revealed last week that it had discovered more than 600 uncounted ballot papers from a pre-poll booth in Port Pirie.

Attorney-General Kyam Maher described the discovery of more uncounted votes as “not good enough” and said he had suggested to the Electoral Commission that it “triple-check everything”.

He said the government plans to launch an independent review of the election — something the opposition also supported.

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