The Premier calls it troubling to know that Elections NL allowed four people to vote by telephone in the final days before the ballot submission deadline.

Andrew Furey reinforces that he is not responsible for how the election is run, and cannot speak to the hows and whys of what happened. However, he says that the organization is handling the situation in an “open and transparent way.”

The situation has drawn harsh criticism from PC Leader Ches Crosbie, who says that this election has been damaging to the province’s image nationally.

He says this has been the most “messed up” election in Canada’s history, and that everything unfolding before the rest of the country has made us a “laughingstock.”

Furey takes exception to that notion asserting that the province is not a laughingstock and “anyone who says otherwise is wrong.”