Communities First candidate Sonya Sharp has announced she will be requesting a recount of the ballots cast in the Oct. 20 Calgary mayoral election, after the unofficial results show her losing by 584 votes to former city councillor Jeromy Farkas.

In a statement emailed to the media on Tuesday, Sharp said, “given the the margin of victory for Mr. Farkas is only 585 votes or 0.16 per cent, I believe it is appropriate to request the Chief Returning Officer undertake a recount of the ballots to ensure the accuracy of the election outcome.”

Citing the long lines experienced by many voters and new procedures put in place as a result of new provincial legislation that required hand-counting of ballots well into the early hours of Tuesday morning, Sharp suggests in her statement that “mistakes

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