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Vancouver’s chief election officer has begun the process of verifying the results of Saturday’s municipal election.

The City of Vancouver says to ensure that the certified results are accurate, the chief election officer, Rosemary Hagiwara, will verify the results by feeding all the ballots into a vote-counting machine to determine if there are any voting discrepancies.

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The process began Monday at 10:30 a.m. at the election office at 450 Broadway. The city says it doesn’t know how long the process will last.

“All candidates or their representatives may attend while this process is underway,” the city said in a news release.

Official election results will be released Wednesday by 4 p.m.

Vancouver NPA mayoral candidate Ken Sim, who lost to independent candidate Kennedy Stewart by just 984 votes in Saturday’s municipal election, said Sunday that he wouldn’t concede defeat until his supporters were assured that all votes were properly counted.