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Liberal leadership hopeful Karina Gould is worried the party’s voter verification system isn’t keeping up with demand and wants to give party members another 24 hours to cast ballots.

There were short lists and long lists, cabinet ministers who were quietly organizing and many who were expected to be serious leadership contenders, but Karina Gould’s was not a name that often ...