00:02Mick Sherry earns more than $320,000 a year as the state's electoral commissioner but with his agency in crisis
00:09he remains on unexplained leave and the commission has gone to ground, the state government left to do the talking.
00:16The electoral commission has one job, it's a fixed state every four years. All the resources that they asked for,
00:22they were given.
00:23Yesterday it was revealed more uncounted votes were discovered in two Northern Adelaide seats. The government says dozens of ballots
00:30were affected but the commission hasn't explained how the error happened.
00:34If there are issues with the chain of custody, if there are issues with the way ballots are being handled
00:39and tracked, the commission really does need to look at that very seriously going forward.
00:44A similar blunder last week in the One Nation held seat of Narunga briefly threw that result into doubt. With
00:51internal and external reviews set to get underway into the commission, more complaints are being raised about how staffing was
00:57managed on polling day.
00:59Not just me but hundreds of others have had their profiles deleted accidentally and we didn't get the opportunity to
01:05work.
01:06Obviously there's been an issue as well with getting people in. I was very keen to work on polling day
01:11but never happened.
01:12Last week, Labor struck a diplomatic tone about the commission, despite anger behind the scenes with how the election was
01:18run.
01:19But the government's rhetoric is hardening now as the failures of the commission continue to mount, raising questions about the
01:25future of the commissioner.
01:28As I've said, we intend to have an independent review and we'll see what happens then.
01:32Not exactly a show of support.
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