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8 - The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday December 6, 2003 /V e m y Burton alleges voting irregularities in court bid to overturn election results . by... Dr. Jonathan Kazdan Dr. Steven Solomon Dr. Marisa D'Angelo DENTAL DO'S AND DONTS Don't -Arrive late tor an appointment assuming it doesn't really matter if you are a few minutes late. Do -Arrive on time allowing your Dentist, Assistant and Hygienist as much time as possible to discuss your treatment and care for you. Don't -Assume your dental insurance will cover everything. Do -Provide your Dentist with your insurance details including a full description of your benefits as available from your employer. This way if something is NOT covered you will know ahead of time. Don't -Assume your children's baby teeth will fall out and that it is not important to take care of them. Do -Treat your children's teeth with the samefoetter care you give your own teeth. 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O akville (905) 842-6030 Services and Assistant Clerk. · since the posting of the official results, the Town has published Rob Burton, the east end resident who that the court order the Town Clerk do a three different versions of the poll-by-poll results of the mayoral lost the Nov. 10 municipal election to manual recount and that the Town pay election and the first two versions didn't add up to the stated vote Mayor Ann Mulvale by 15 votes, has asked Burton's court costs. totals. the court to overturn the election results The court document spells out the · Poll 301 was excluded from the first poll-by-poll results and in because of alleged improprieties in vote grounds for Burton's claim. the later versions, this poll's results changed dramatically. The sec counting. The claims are all allegations, which ond poll-by-poll results showed poll 301 as 253 for Burton: 119 for In an application filed with the Ontario have not been proven as fact in court. Mulvale and 23 for Serra. The third version showed 155 for Burton; Superior Court of Justice on Thursday. Those allegations include: 270 for Mulvale and two for Serra. Dec. 4. Burton names as respondents the · that on Election Night, the Town post · The first and second version of the poll-by-poll results break Town of Oakville. Mulvale. Town Clerk ed unofficial results of the mayoral elec down the votes cast in the advance polls on a ward basis. Those Cathie Best (who acted as the election tion, which differed substantially from the show Serra received zero votes in Ward 6 and two votes in Ward 5. Returning Officer) and the third mayoral results provided by election officials to · Burton has affidavits from Serra's parents that they live in candidate, Spanish-only speaking Richard scrutineers for the Burton campaign. Ward 6 and both voted for their son in an advance poll. Serra. · that three days after the election, the · Burton has affidavits from five members of Serra's family tes A hearing date has been set in Milton Town posted official results from the tifying that they live in Ward 5 and all voted in advance polls for for Monday. Dec. 22. mayor's race that differed from the unoffi Serra. According to the court document. cial results. The application goes on to allege that numerous serious issues Burton is asking that the mayoral election · between Election Night and the offi have come to light regarding the manner in which the election was be deemed invalid, that it be declared that cial results announcement, some type of conducted, including: Mulvale was not validly elected mayor and recount was done by the Town and Best, · a large number of vote-counting machines were not operating that he was. or that a by-election be held for but Burton wasn't allowed to participate on Election Day and that led to voters either being turned away or the job of mayor. nor was Dwight Turner, the Town's votes being taken and not fed into vote-counting machines in vot Burton also asks, "in the alternative". Manager of Administration and Legislative ers' presence with it being unknown if the votes ever were fed into the machines. · a ballot was fed into a vote-counting machine three times and each time the vote counter increased by one vote. · an election worker noted that the vote counter at a poll skipped a number, but no steps were taken to investigate or correct the prob D e c o r a tin g a n e w b e d r o o m c a n b e e x p e n s iv e lem. · in at least one poll the election officials could not reconcile the B U T n o t a t H a lto n L i n e n number of votes cast with the number of ballots distributed. Despite Hi a request from Burton, the Town hasn't produced any information regarding reconciliations carried out at the polls. Voted Oakville's · the day after the election, 5 1 completed ballots were discovered Linen Shop in vote tabulator bins. Town staff was made aware of the fact, but took no steps to count the votes on the grounds that they believed H a lto n L in e n w h e re the votes were cast mainly for Mulvale. Turner has stated that the y o u r d e c o r a t i n g d o lla r majority of those ballots were cast for Burton. · alter the election, the ballots were not properly secured and a g o e s f u r tth he i r number of people with no involvement in the election were afford 481 N o rth Service Rd.W., ed access to the ballots. OAKVILLE · when Turner, who as part of his job was involved in managing (between Dorval Drive and 4th Line) the election, attempted to e-mail his concerns about the election to members of the Oakville Town Council, the e-mail was deleted ( ) from the councillors' e-mail accounts. "It is in the public interest and important for the proper adminis \M O N . FRI. 10A.M.- 5:30 PM.· SATURDAY I0AM.-5 PM.* SUNDAY. 12AM.- 5 PM.. tration of the Elections Act. 19% that this election be declared invalid." states Burton's claim filed by lawyers Thomas Barlow and William f ~ -- * Hourigan of the Toronto law firm, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin. M I W I M I f l U Burton's application states that evidence to be used at the hearing includes 13 affi davits including those from Burton and his wife, Wendy Burton, as well as those from Wendy Costante, Linda Riddoch. Pedro Marsano, Maritza Marsano, Gino Serra, Teresa Serra. Roberto Serra, Teodoro Serra, Rosa Serra, Russell Kemp and Tom Adams. The affidavits were sworn on Nov. 27, · 15 years experience 28 and Dec. 4. In a media release issued early Friday · Over 1 0 6 ,0 0 0 songs afternoon, the Town stated that it had "reviewed an action that was filed in the · Full range o f players: C D+G raphics, Provincial Superior Court surrounding the results of the November 10,2003 mayoral D V D , V C D or laser: Starting at $ 1 2 9 ty election." The release continued. "A number of · From beginner to Pro points have been raised in that document that would prevent the Town and its staff from answering specific media questions. S a v e u p to 6 7 % o n K a r a o k e s a le . The information may be evidence in any legal proceedings, related to this action." Further, the release noted that the Town V is it y o u r K a r a o k e e x p e rts a t and its staff would continue its day-to-day I ___________ I y * work and service to the community. h n o w i» r ii "It should be emphasized that during 440 In g le h a rt St. N. 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