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Breakenridge: Hand-counted ballots placates UCP supporters but costs municipalities

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Rob Breakenridge: Ban on using electronic vote tabulators in municipal elections was a sensible decision.

He says the province is holding firm to a separate decision that comes with a clear financial downside but no apparent upside.

A resolution at the AGM calling on the province to reconsider the ban passed with more than 85 per cent support.

The preferable option would be to leave things as they were, he says.

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