MHK gives evidence at election committee

Monday, 12 December 2016 00:00

Ayre and Michael MHK Tim Baker says he was surprised to discover there'd been problems with vote-counting during September's general election.

He was one of the witnesses who gave evidence to a Tynwald committee on Friday - it's looking into the voting procedure.

A series of errors on election night meant more than two hundred votes went uncounted until they were discovered days later - fortunately it didn't affect the results.

Mr Baker told the committee he hadn't noticed any problems on the night:

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