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They centre around a discrepancy between the number of voters listed in a database held by the party and the final vote tally released on election night, May 27. The database contained 133,896 entries while the party announced 141,362 party members voted in the process.

Party spokesman Cory Hann said the database was a list to help campaigns with their “get-out-the-vote efforts,” and was “not an official count by any means.” Campaign sources confirmed they were offered daily updates from the list, which helped them assess turnout.

Of 14 locations where partisans could cast their votes on election day, 12 did not use the database, accounting for about 3,000 names not on the list. The rest come from “human error,” Hann said.

About 350 volunteers were busy opening envelopes, checking identification and scanning barcodes on signed declaration forms to verify ballots. The barcode scanning is how names were entered into the database.

Here’s how “human error” came into play, as Hann explained it: If a form was scanned incorrectly, an error dialogue would pop up on an associated computer screen. It would have to be closed before the system could register more names into the database.

But it was like an “assembly line” in there, Hann said, and sometimes volunteers didn’t notice the error right away. Barcode scanners would still beep with each scan, but the names wouldn’t register until someone closed the error message.

The important thing, however, was that the ballots themselves, the ones that would be counted, were verified — by real people, and in view of campaign scrutineers, party staffers, Deloitte auditors and a live-streaming webcam, Hann explained.