Nearly 300,000 names have been removed from the national voters’ list including dead people and foreigners, Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault said yesterday. Perrault promised to “clean up the list” by October 21 balloting, but would not commit to investigating how many illegal votes were cast in the 2015 campaign: “It’s not a no or a yes.”

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