AEC investigates after missing ballot papers found at election worker’s home

The Australian electoral commission is investigating how a box of ballot papers ended up in the home of a temporary AEC worker after election night.

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00:00A box of 1,866 ballot papers from a polling place in Hurstville ended up inside the home

00:10of an Australian Electoral Commission worker after the May 3 vote.

00:15Now the AEC says these votes had already been counted by the time they went missing.

00:21So they've had no impact on the final result in the seat of Barton, which Labor retained.

00:27But the concern here is exactly how this happened in the first place.

00:32The AEC says that the box in question was among a few boxes of votes to be packaged up

00:38and taken to a central location from the Hurstville polling place after the election.

00:43But that when those boxes arrived, there was one less than expected.

00:48It was found last week inside the home of a temporary Electoral Commission worker,

00:54still sealed and with all ballots accounted for.

00:59But the AEC says it takes the incident very seriously

01:02and has launched an investigation into exactly how this could have occurred in the first place.

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