Records show a dead person voted in last week's federal election, Liberal candidate Keith Milligan states in his affidavit asking for a recount in the western P.E.I. riding of Egmont.
Milligan lost the count on election night to Conservative Gail Shea by 62 votes, the closest result in a federal election on P.E.I. since the Second World War. He has asked for a judicial recount, which will begin Thursday in Summerside.
In a sworn affidavit filed with the P.E.I. Supreme Court, Milligan alleges a number of irregularities. He said some people who live out of province were allowed to vote in Egmont when they didn't qualify, and that some potential voters were turned away because they didn't have the proper identification, while others without identification were allowed to vote.
He also said some ballots were counted as spoiled in some districts because they had short notes on them or the X in the wrong place, but similar ballots were counted in other districts.
And he said that at least one man who voting records record as having cast a ballot was actually dead.
Milligan will have to pay costs unless the recount alters the outcome of the vote.
