{"id":742550,"date":"2026-04-21T06:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/742550\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T06:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:55:15","slug":"more-uncounted-votes-discovered-in-sa-a-month-after-state-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/742550\/","title":{"rendered":"More uncounted votes discovered in SA a month after state election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">More uncounted ballots have been discovered a month on from the South Australian state election \u2014 the second such instance in less than a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Both seats were safely won by Labor, and ECSA said the number of votes &#8220;would not have affected any House of Assembly seat&#8221; \u2014 but it did not confirm how many had been found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It said the newly discovered upper house ballots would be &#8220;included in the Legislative Council count, which is due to be finalised on 1 May&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The revelation of uncounted votes is the second such incident in SA, coming after the state&#8217;s Electoral Commission revealed last week <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-04-21\/more-uncounted-votes-discovered-in-sa-month-after-election\/content:\/106570406\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that it had discovered more than 600 uncounted ballot papers<\/a> from a pre-poll booth in Port Pirie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Attorney-General Kyam Maher described the discovery of more uncounted votes as &#8220;not good enough&#8221; and said he had suggested to the Electoral Commission that it &#8220;triple-check everything&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He said the government plans to launch an independent review of the election \u2014 something the opposition also supported.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More uncounted ballots have been discovered a month on from the South Australian state election \u2014 the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":742551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,158357,282489,242096,8988,176803,306148,306147,50,306146,46463],"class_list":["post-742550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-australia","tag-ballots","tag-counting","tag-ecsa","tag-election","tag-electoral-commission","tag-leah-mclay","tag-mick-sherry","tag-news","tag-uncounted","tag-votes"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116441391575106391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}