Louie campaign testing the rules at Vision vote: Update: ROBERTSON WINS

About 5,000 people have now voted, as of 3 p.m. down here at the Vision Vancouver vote/party/music festival/war-room. The question now for everyone is whether Gregor Robertson will be able to win on the first vote. If he doesn't get that 50 per cent plus one voter, the returning officer will then have to turn to the second choices of the last-place candidate. Everyone seems to believe that Robertson is unlikely to get the majority of those votes, so it will be a squeaker victory for whoever wins in that second round.

Things are running like clockwork here, except for the ongoing fight between the Robertson and Louie camps over the table in the voting room where people are filling out statutory declarations vouching that person X with them is really person X who lives at Y address. The table, which is being heavily used by Louie's Indo-Canadian and Chinese voters, was going to be moved into the credentials room. That prompted a near physical confrontation, with the result that the table stayed. People from both camps aren't happy about what's going on with the statutory declarations. The Louie camp says it's all their voters being challenged. The Robertson camp is unhappy about the way one person is now allowed to vouch for multiple other voters, which they believed wasn't allowed.