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Is that 1 or 7? What the judge will have to decide in Bradfield

Paul Karp

Liberal Gisele Kapterian’s claim that she belongs in parliament rests on a challenge to 151 questionable ballots, which a judge will now have to decipher one pencil squiggle at a time.

Kapterian has applied to the Court of Disputed Returns alleging the Australian Electoral Commission committed “illegal practices” wrongly including or excluding these ballots in a bid to overturn her 26-vote defeat in a recount that stretched on for more than a month after the May 3 federal election.

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Paul Karp is The Australian Financial Review’s NSW political correspondent.

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