Sonya Sharp wants a recount of Calgary’s election. What happens next? - October 23, 2025

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John Santos, a data scientist with Janet Brown Opinion Research, said it makes sense to count all of the votes, even if there's a low chance of the overall result changing.

"We can sit here and we can conduct these thought experiments and counterfactuals, but at the end of the day, democracy is decided based on a number of votes," he said. 

"We need to know those votes and the public needs to know that they were counted properly and accurately in order to maintain faith in the system."