00:02South Australia's MPs will return to Parliament next week for a new term.
00:06The only problem, it's not yet official who will be sitting in some of the seats.
00:11We may not yet see the declaration of the upper house ballot for some days yet.
00:17The Electoral Commission's delay to finalising results is the latest in a string of failures plaguing the state election
00:23and leaving the government and opposition running out of patience.
00:27What's the reason for the delay?
00:28You tell me, you have to ask the Electoral Commission.
00:30It's been error after error after error and that's why I'm fully supportive of having this independent review.
00:36Former Federal Commissioner Tom Rogers has been appointed to lead that review, set to probe what happened and report to
00:42Parliament by the end of the year.
00:44Elections are the most complex peacetime logistic event delivered in the jurisdiction they're delivered.
00:48It's big, it's complex and you need to look at all of the factors.
00:52SA's Electoral Commission has been on leave throughout the fallout.
00:55His agency hasn't fronted cameras over the latest failures, but in a statement, it's welcome to the review and says
01:01it'll support Mr Rogers to shine a light on the issues that occurred.
01:05With vote counting well progressed, there's little doubt about who the 11 successful upper house candidates will be.
01:11But if a formal declaration isn't made until Monday, first time MPs will have a single day to find their
01:18feet before Parliament begins.
01:20They are entitled to get the basic training that is required before the first day of Parliament.
01:26That's very difficult for the Parliament to facilitate when they don't know who the elected MPs are in the upper
01:31house.
01:32Questions continuing to mount as the reviewer rolls up his sleeves.
01:39Bye-bye.
01:39Those are the things that operate on the left side of the left side of the board.
01:39So please, go to the next slide.
01:40Over a few minutes.
01:40About 11 seconds.
01:40We have to keep moving forward.
01:40In the next slide, we'll see if we're going forward to joining the next slide,
01:41and we'll see you soon.
01:42This will be the next slide.
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