An already controversial situation in Swan River just got worse for the NDP. A last minute re-vote that was supposed to regain the trust of people in the constituency is now being challenged.

The vote was to select the 22 delegates, who would represent the district and vote at the NDP leadership convention Sunday. The deadline to mail ballots was last Friday, Feb. 27. The party counted them Tuesday, March 3.

Swan River New Democrat Ken Sigurdson said 2 business days isn't enough time for all the ballots to have made it to NDP headquarters in Winnipeg.

"We don't want to disenfranchise the people here on an important vote like this," said Kenneth Sigurdson, a Swan River NDP member.

Sigurdson said the vote was so close it could have impacted the outcome.

"A rule is a rule. If the post mark was Friday, then the votes should be counted and we're saying count all the votes. Let's be democratic and lets move on here," Sigurdson said.

Greg Selinger's campaign says it claimed 20 of the 22 delegate spots from Swan River.

Selecting the New Democrats who will represent Swan River at the NDP convention Sunday has been mired in controversy.

The party ordered the re-vote Feb 20., after accusations of misleading information and voter intimidation. Greg Selinger's election planning committee co-chair and former cabinet minister Rosann Wowchuk was implicated in those accusations. Wowchuk never responded to CBC News about the incident, nor did the party.

Sigurdson said the party told the roughly 220 Swan River members they would be "lenient" getting the re-votes back because the time was so tight. Sigurdson said local organizers told him about 180 votes were cast in the first round of voting, but only 155 votes were counted in the re-vote. He said this is proof some didn't make it to Winnipeg in time.

"It's just simply not enough time to get all the votes into Winnipeg to tabulate. It took a week for the ballots to arrive in individuals's mail boxes, so it's only logical that it would take almost a week to get the results back," he said.

Theresa Oswald's campaign has launched an official appeal with the party over the re-vote, but won't comment further.

This is the second appeal for the Oswald campaign. On Feb. 2 it appealed CUPE's massive allotment of labour delegates at the convention.

The campaign argued CUPE Manitoba didn't affiliate all it's local chapters properly. They lost that appeal.

The NDP did not respond to comment on this latest appeal over Swan River's re-vote.