Bruce Deachman: It's a simple process to trigger an audit of a municipal candidate's or third-party advertiser's election expenses. But is it too easy?

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The city at last closed the books on the 2022 municipal election. Remember the complaints regarding campaign finances of council candidates Doug Thompson and Shawn Menard, and third-party advertiser Horizon Ottawa? They’ve all been resolved: no one will face prosecution. Article content

To refresh your memory, the complaint against Thompson was dealt with more than a year ago when the city’s Election Compliance Audit Committee ( ECAC) ruled that the transgressions identified by auditors — under-reporting the value of used campaign signs by $144.60; overstating bank charges by $34.05; understating miscellaneous expenses

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