section_path: Results/Judicial recounts/Terrebonne
section_name: Terrebonne
paragraph_text: Terrebonne
  
  After the Terrebonne recount result was announced, it emerged that a mail-in ballot had been returned by Canada Post because of a faulty address, even though the envelope had been preprinted by the office of the local returning officer. As the ballot was marked for the Bloc candidate, a tie vote would have forced a by-election. On May 14, Elections Canada announced that they had conducted an analysis revealing that only that ballot had come to their attention, but they were expanding their review of the special ballot voting system in general, which had been announced after a separate incident occurred in Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam. However, the agency declared that it regards the result of the judicial recount as final. According to reports by Radio-Canada and Le Devoir, the Bloc was not ruling out contesting the result in court but had to wait until the result of the recount was published in the Canada Gazette, which occurred on May 15. Auguste was consequentially able to be sworn in as MP for the riding.
  
  On May 15, Yves-François Blanchet announced in Ottawa that that the Bloc would be applying to the Superior Court of Quebec to order a by-election on the basis of irregularities that occurred, not just on the ballot returned to the voter, but also on five other ballots that had been received by Elections Canada too late to be counted. He said, "Since Elections Canada cannot by themselves ask for the election to be repeated, we have to bring this situation in front of a judge, in a court, in order to do the election all over again." The application was filed in court on May 23.
  
  If successful, this would be the first time at the federal level that an election result had been overturned on such grounds. The last attempt to do so arose in Etobicoke Centre in 2011, where Ted Opitz defeated Borys Wrzesnewskyj by 26 votes. The application was allowed at first instance, but the ruling was reversed 4–3 on appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, a process that took a year and a half to complete.