Canadian law bans tweeting or Facebook posts about election results [View All]

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Source: CBS

Say you love your local politician. You volunteered for them. You went to rallies for them. It's election night, and they have just won. You are thrilled and can't wait to share your excitement and the good news with your friends and family so, of course, you tweet about it.

Hold on now: Your tweet about the election may now be illegal -- at least if you live in Canada.

In anticipation for the Canadian elections which will be held on May 2, Elections Canada -- the official institution in charge of federal elections and referendums in Canada -- posted a warning to tweeters and other social media users on its website. "No person shall transmit the result or purported result of the vote in an electoral district to the public in another electoral district before the close of all of the polling stations in that other electoral district," they wrote.




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