Tommy Sheridan and Allan Wilson have held talks in the wake of the election fiasco which saw both of them lose their seats at Holyrood.
The Herald has learned that Mr Wilson, the Labour candidate who was defeated by just 48 votes in Cunninghame North, e-mailed the Solidarity leader on Friday suggesting they should discuss what happened at their respective counts. Mr Sheridan failed to secure a seat on the Glasgow regional list.
Legal challenges are being considered over the two counts and yesterday Mr Wilson said he had contacted Mr Sheridan because of the apparent similarities between the cases.
He said: "Somebody told me he was considering mounting a legal case and I asked him to give me a phone.
"I wanted to ask him a couple of questions about what the pattern of voting had been on the list and whether it equated with what happened in Cunninghame North."
Labour Party lawyers are seeking a manual recount of all the votes cast in Cunninghame North, something they claim was denied them by the returning officer.
Although Mr Sheridan is not mounting a legal challenge to the Glasgow result himself, he is supporting a case which is being brought by Mike Dailly, a solicitor at the Govan Law Centre.
Mr Dailly says the parliamentary ballot paper was so complicated that thousands of voters made the mistake of putting two crosses on the regional section and none on the constituency part.
Around 9000 votes were discarded and Mr Dailly believes either Mr Sheridan or another Green could have been elected if they had stood. That could also have deprived the SNP of a list seat and changed the national result.
Yesterday, Mr Dailly said he may apply to the sheriff court seeking an order for the release of all the discarded ballot papers to assess whether they would have made a difference to the final outcome. "If we can establish the ballots would have made a difference then the case has got more merit," he said.
IN The Herald's Election 2007 supplement on Saturday, we gave the wrong parties for three councillors.
Douglas McAllister, who will represent the Kilpatrick ward on West Dunbartonshire council, stood for Labour; Caroline Shiers stood for the Conservative Party in Blairgowrie and the Glens Ward on Perth and Kinross Council; and Alex Allison represented the Tories in the Clydesdale West ward on South Lanarkshire Council.
We also omitted to publish a photograph of Stewart Maxwell, who was elected MSP for the SNP from the West of Scotland list. In addition, we wrongly stated that Iain White, the SNP candidate in Ayr constituency, polled 873 votes. It was, in fact, 7952 votes.
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