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A re-count of votes in the Fisher by-election in South Australia will begin this morning after Labor's Nat Cook claimed victory over the Liberals' Heidi Harris by 23 votes on Saturday.

The Liberals have raised concerns about whether ballots marked with crosses as well as numbers should be considered as valid.

Electoral Commissioner Kay Mousley said the re-count was approved to remove any doubt of a fair result.

"I think for transparency reasons it's best that we give a recount," she said.

"It is a close outcome and this way there can be no doubt in anyone's mind that we have got the right result."

She said the Liberals were concerned with some of the formality decisions.

"So we will go back through all of those informal ballot papers to ensure that there has been a determination made and it quite will be that we still won't agree, but that's fine," Ms Mousley said.

"We know the provisions of the electoral act and what is formal and what's not.

"So we'll discuss those on a case by case basis to ensure that everyone is comfortable that we've looked at the papers again and given due consideration to all those that might have been excluded from the count originally."

Political commentator Dr Clem Macintyre told 891 ABC Adelaide this morning the Liberals had nothing to lose by asking for a recount.

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The Canberra Liberals are undemocratic, out of touch with the ACT community and dominated by the ideological hard right, according to former leader Gary Humphries.

In his parting letter to friends and supporters in the local party, the former senator described a party with dead people on its membership lists, where meetings were regularly stacked and which could not manage its own finances.

But Canberra Liberals leader Jeremy Hanson, in response, labelled Mr Humphries bitter and angry, and said that it was the ex-senator's views that were "completely out of step and out of touch".

Mr Humphries, who has been appointed to a $460,000 job as deputy president of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, says the Canberra Liberals are heading toward their fifth successive defeat unless the party reforms itself.

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In a letter written to about 200 of the local party's moderate "Menzies Group" just before his new appointment, the former chief minister offered a gloomy assessment of the present state of the Canberra Liberals.

"I believe the need for reform is so significant it could prevent us winning the next ACT election if it goes unaddressed," he wrote.

Mr Humphries wrote that parties seeking government must "hold values and pursue policies which resonate with local people, which keep the party anchored in the community it serves.

"We have lost four ACT elections in a row because we have lost sight of this ideal.

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