Elections BC bans Mark Marissen and municipal party over financing breach

VANCOUVER — Elections BC has banned longtime political organizer Mark Marissen from running in local elections for three years after it deregistered his Progress Vancouver party for breaking campaign finance rules.
A news release from the elections body says the party and six of its eight candidates in last year’s municipal vote failed to meet the filing deadline for finance reports in January this year. 
Elections BC says they filed a month later to meet a late filing deadline,