MONTREAL — The lawyer for a Quebec Liberal MP who won her riding in the April federal election by a single vote argued on Tuesday it would be unfair to other voters to cancel the result over one uncounted ballot.

Marc-Étienne Vien, lawyer for MP Tatiana Auguste, told a hearing in St-Jérôme, Que., that ordering a new election would be “unreasonable” and would effectively disenfranchise the tens of thousands of people who cast ballots in the Terrebonne riding, north of Montreal.

“To cancel the election is to deny the right to vote that was expressed by these 61,115 people,” Vien said in Superior Court.

If a new vote were held, he said, some of the people who cast ballots in April may have since died or would be otherwise unable to vote in a new byelection.

The Quebec Superior Court agree

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