Chief electoral commissioner puts voting document incident behind him

The documents were subsequently found and handed over to a Labour MP who took them to the police. But Gauci says he sees nothing wrong in not having publicised the incident when it first occurred, and so far has not explained the Commission’s stance a week since Labour announced it had found the misplaced voting documents.

Maltapost has been charged with the responsibility to distribute the voting documents, but without the customary presence of a police officer.

Gauci told sister newspaper Illum that, going by the Commission’s latest public statement – issued a week since news of the misplaced voting documents broke – should have reassured voters’ minds. “It was not on our agenda to have this statement published either earlier or late,” Gauci said.

Gauci said he didn’t feel the incident warranted his resignation. “It didn’t really pass my mind.”

He would not comment any further on whether he felt the misplacement of votes had been “a serious incident”.