news Zig Zag to be completed soon Page 2
Business A brand new store for the ladies Page 3
EVENTS
Model Jets are back. Watch them this weekend. Page 6
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The Similkameen
Volume 64 Issue 22
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
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Final count underway for B.C. vote The count of 180,000 absentee ballots began on Monday Tom Fletcher Black Press
VICTORIA – Elections BC officials started counting 180,000 absentee ballots Monday, an unusually high number that could be enough to change the result of some closer contests from the May 14 provincial vote. Final results will be known by Wednesday. A recount is also underway in the closest of the 85 constituency elections, Saanich North and the Islands. The NDP’s Gary Holman led after initial counting with 9,676 votes, 50 more than B.C. Liberal candidate Stephen Roberts. Adam Olsen of the B.C. Green Party was a close third with 9,294 votes. Another closely watched constituency is Coquitlam-Maillardville, where B.C. Liberal Steve Kim led with 9,044 in preliminary results. The NDP’s Selena Robertson was 105 votes behind after early results in the final count, which includes absentee ballots. Premier Christy Clark has indicated she will wait until the final count is complete before deciding where to seek a seat in a by-election. The NDP’s David Eby finished 785 votes ahead of Clark in election-night returns for Vancouver-Point Grey, a result unlikely to be overturned by the addition of late ballots to the total. Elections BC officials say the 180,000 absentee ballots doubles the number received in 2009. The final count include votes cast by people outside their home constituencies. It also incorporates mail-in votes and special polling places set up at hospitals, isolated communities and logging or fishing camps.
Weather Watch Wednesday
High 15/Low 7
Thursday
High 17/Low 8
Friday
High 20/Low 5
Saturday
High 19/Low 5
Sunday
High 18/Low 7
Grads got talent 2013 Wendy Bentley/Spotlight
The graduating class of 2013 put on their annual talent show for the community on Thursday night. The kids kept the whole audience laughing with their skits. Photo shows a Hawaiian Hula lead by ukulele that turned into a Hawaiian Hula-Rap ensemble.
Harry Lali says he will be back Lisa Carleton lisa@similkameenspotlight.com
NDP Harry Lali served as MLA for the Yale-Lillooet riding (local riding) from 1991 to 2001, then from 2005 to 2009 and again in the Fraser-Nicola riding (newly created local riding) from 2009 to 2013. Preliminary voting results from election day, May 14 of this year show BC Liberal Jackie Tegart with the win at 5,539 votes to incumbent NDP Harry Lali with 4,785 votes in the Fraser-Nicola riding. “NDP voters stayed home,” said Lali. According to past voter support tracking approximately 3200 NDP voters stayed home he said.
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Complacency and the belief of voters who thought Lali was a “shoo-in” thinking he just couldn’t lose—may just have kept voters at home. “This happened province wide as well,” said Lali. In the early polls, the NDP was the lead province-wide, but in the end voter turnout was low. According to information from BC Elections, only 1,692,502 of the registered 3,116,626 B.C. voters cast their ballots. (Preliminary results) Lali extends his congratulations to Tegart and “wishes her well.” “I will be back in four years,” he said, “the Liberals got a freebie—this time.” Final results of the 2013 Election will be known by Wednesday, May 29.
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