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Jacob Shteyman

Libs withdraw election ad after 'unusual' intervention

The Electoral Commission of SA has received a complaint about a breach of campaign rules. (Jacob Shteyman/AAP PHOTOS)

The South Australian Liberal Party has withdrawn an ad minutes before polls closed in a key by-election after a bizarre eleventh-hour intervention by the electoral commission left both sides of politics perplexed.

The Electoral Commission of SA published a public post on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday afternoon, tagging the SA Liberal Party account and asking the account holder to get in touch after the Labor Party made a complaint about a breach of campaign rules.

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