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Related: About this forumNational Post: Fraudulent election calls traced to Edmonton firm with Tory links
Elections Canada has traced fraudulent phone calls made during the federal election to an Edmonton voice-broadcast company that worked for the Conservative Party across the country.
While the agency investigates, aided by the RCMP, the Conservatives are conducting an internal probe. A party lawyer is interviewing campaign workers to find who was behind the deceptive robocalls.
Elections Canada launched its investigation after it was inundated with complaints about election day calls in Guelph, Ont., one of 18 ridings across the country where voters were targeted by harassing or deceptive phone messages in an apparent effort to discourage Liberal supporters from voting.
In Guelph, a riding the Conservatives hoped to take from the Liberals, voters received recorded calls pretending to be from Elections Canada, telling them their polling stations had been moved. The calls led to a chaotic scene at one polling station, and likely led some voters to give up on voting.
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http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/22/racknine-inc-fraudulent-election-calls-traced/
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)They just don't have the morals of liberals.
TrogL
(32,818 posts)Ive worked on Liberal and NDP campaigns posting signs and caught Conservative workers tearing them down
I had to get Elections Canada to do something about one Conservative campaign worker who was trying to look over people's shoulders while they were voting
The money!
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)Well, maybe not so much.
daleo
(21,317 posts)An internal Tory party investigation is to laugh, and the RCMP is pretty compromised as far as trustworthiness goes, but I think some junior level person will end up being a fall guy for this. That's been the pattern - blame an "over-enthusiastic staffer", give him/her a slap on the wrist, then say "all taken care of".
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)daleo
(21,317 posts)It's typical. I don't expect the RCMP investigation will amount to a hill of beans either.
CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)...of the inherant criminality of the Harper government. Like good neo-conservatives everywhere, they believe that criminal acts in the pursuit of a greater good are justifiable.
Election fraud will be coming up next. How long 'til political asassinations become a part of OUR political history???
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