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physical polls stayed open later,” Akapo said.

Late Monday night, Dominion Voting Systems, the city’s internet voting provider, issued a statement that a portal used by 51 Ontario municipalities experienced slow traffic in the system.

Dominion stated the issue was resolved in 90 minutes, but many voters still complained of problems.

Akapo said her campaign team was offering rides to the polls to get out the vote.

She also said her parents were in Peterborough from Montreal for the last six days of the campaign to help canvass — and to watch the results come in.

She said she had the support of her family, and also of an “excellent” team of volunteers.

Her campaign slogan was Together We Can — and Akapo said she was happy to see many people come forward to volunteer when she needed them.

“And they followed through,” she said. “I knew I had a really great team when it was election day and I wasn’t stressed — that’s a really good sign.”

Kim Zippel said she also had a great team of volunteers helping her campaign — and also that her goal was to get to every door in the ward.

That’s a bit more than 6,000 doors, she said.

She personally knocked on 5,056 doors: “I kept a diary,” she said in an interview Tuesday.

Zippel’s campaign team got to the remaining 1,000 or so, she said — but now she says she’s committed to visiting those homes post-election.

The inauguration of a new city council takes place at City Hall on Dec. 3.