Greater Sudbury worker votes twice in election

CBC News has learned that someone was able to vote twice in the Sudbury municipal election.

The voter is an employee at the City of Greater Sudbury.

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CBC news has learned that a city employee was able to cast two ballots in the last week, one on paper and one using the new online sytem.

She then notified officials at the city about what had happened.

However the duplicate vote was identified by their system, the city said in a statement.

The city statedthe duplicate vote has been discarded and the loophole in the system that allowed this has been quote "resolved."

Transparency 'problems'

The city also said that voting twice is an offence and that they have notified Greater Sudbury police.

As well, the city statement saidthe human resources department at Tom Davies Square is investigating and that disciplinary action against this employee could be taken.

This problem with online voting does come as Greater Sudbury wraps up its experiment with the online system tomorrow, which thousands of Sudburians haveused to vote so far.

Candidates running in the election were notified of the problem by the city last night.

Mayoral candidate Jeff Huska was quick with a release, saying the city employee should be rewarded, instead of punished.

This entire incident is indicative of the problems at city hall regarding accountability and transparency," Huska said in a release.

"Instead of administration admitting there was a flaw in the system, they hide behind the illegal act of an employee attempting to vote twice and succeeding. Staff need to know they can speak up without retribution."