Karl Le Quesne: Electoral Commission's Chief Electoral Officer on the voting count errors at multiple polling locations

The Electoral Commission has apologised over errors in the vote count at three polling booths.  It's checking all results after admitting a data entry error caused hundreds of votes to be assigned to the wrong party.  At a booth in Port Waikato, more than 500 votes intended for National were wrongly assigned to the Leighton Baker Party.  Another booth in Port Waikato, and a polling station in Ilam, both had the incorrect count.  Chief Electoral Officer Karl Le Quesne told Mike Hosking that they're re-checking candidate votes at the moment.  He says most were processed yesterday and there are possibly a few more errors, but they're just confirming that today.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.