Moira Deeming, an eight-minute meeting and the latest flashpoint in the battle within the Victorian Liberals

Moira Deeming’s supporters claim they were given an incorrectly formatted address for an important preselection vote, sending them to the wrong place. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

An eight-minute meeting at a suburban business park in Melbourne’s west last month has become the latest flashpoint in the Victorian Liberal party’s internal battle.

The Laverton branch gathered for what was meant to be a routine vote to elect delegates who will help decide whether the upper house MP Moira Deeming can run again for the party at November’s state election.