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"Tory MP Brad Butt retracts claim he saw voter cards stolen"
Tory MP Brad Butt retracts claim he saw voter cards stolenBy Laura Payton, CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tory-mp-brad-butt-retracts-claim-he-saw-voter-cards-stolen-1.2549661
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Conservative MP Brad Butt is stepping back from his assertion earlier this month that he saw voter information cards taken from the garbage and given to a candidate's supporters to be used by people without identification.
The MP for the Ontario riding of Mississauga-Streetsville sits on the procedure and House affairs committee that is looking at proposed changes to Canada's election laws. One of the changes would eliminate the voter information cards sent by Elections Canada as an acceptable form of identification.
On Feb. 6, Butt described seeing the voter information cards wrongly used by others to cast ballots.
"On mail delivery day when the voter cards are delivered to community mailboxes in apartment buildings, many of them are discarded in the garbage can or the blue box. I have actually witnessed other people picking up the voter cards, going to the campaign office of whatever candidate they support and handing out these voter cards to other individuals, who then walk into voting stations with friends who vouch for them with no ID," Butt said in the House.
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"Butt told CBC News that he considers the matter closed." 
Of course, because you wouldn't want to be caught in an embarrassing public admission that you lied about voter fraud that you claimed to have witnessed first hand.
Or maybe you just got marching orders from higher up, because that's what -your- guys are doing, and they don't want the investigation! They might just determine that the Tories are stuffing the box with their own people.
Someone needs to nail this Butt to the wall.