Absentee ballots have decided races before, but it’s different this time in B.C.
VANCOUVER — Jim Benninger knows that a lot of people think the difference between a Liberal majority or minority government in British Columbia is resting on his shoulders.
The Liberal candidate in Courtenay-Comox lost by nine votes after advance and general ballots were counted on Tuesday, leaving the party with one seat short of the 44 needed to mount their fifth straight majority government. But there’s a twist: 176,000 absentee ballots will be counted in two weeks, and Benninger estimates about 1,500 of those are in his riding.
Benninger isn’t feeling any pressure, however. After all, there’s nothing he can do about it now.
“It’s like when you hand in an exam and they tell you you’ll get your mark in two weeks,” he said Thursday.