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The Liberal party is refusing to disclose details of an appeal of a nomination process that has triggered allegations of ethnic profiling and vote-suppressing robocalls in a downtown Toronto riding.

The party will not discuss the grounds for the appeal launched by engineer Marisa Sterling, who sought to become the Liberal candidate in the riding of Beaches-East York but who lost to lawyer Nathaniel Erskine-Smith at a nomination meeting before Christmas.

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Sterling filed her complaint with the Liberal permanent appeals committee, led by lawyer Jim Graham, seeking to have the result overturned and to have Sterling herself named as the successful candidate.

Although no one involved would disclose details of the appeal, the Citizen has learned it concerns robocalls and a letter sent by Erskine-Smith’s campaign to warn riding members about voting rules.

In November, the authenticity of some memberships was called into question when a large number of new names from the Bangladeshi and South Asian communities suddenly appeared on the riding association list of members eligible to vote.