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Stone campaign clarifies membership issues in B.C. Liberal leadership race

Feb 3, 2018 | 5:00 PM

VANCOUVER — A campaign for one of the candidates to lead the B.C. Liberal party says it knew about issues with more than 1,000 membership applications two weeks earlier than it previously disclosed.

A statement issued by Todd Stone’s campaign Saturday says it was alerted on Jan. 12 to concerns with email addresses on nearly 1,400 membership applications and was told those applications would not be accepted.

On Friday, a spokesman for the campaign said the issue came to light on Jan. 26 and it had to do with missing email addresses on applications of people whose first language is not English.

The campaign now says it acknowledged responsibility for the creation of the email addresses in question on Jan. 12, but continued to try and have the applications approved.

The statement says Stone’s campaign was advised of “additional concerns” about the email accounts on Jan. 26, and officially withdrew a request to have the applications approved on Jan. 28.

Stone is one of six candidates running to lead the party in Saturday’s leadership contest.

The Canadian Press