Polling firm finds evidence non-Conservative voters were targeted in Canadian robo-call scandal
Source: The Globe and Mail
One of Canada’s leading polling firms says it has found strong evidence of a targeted program of voter suppression aimed at non-Conservative voters during last May’s federal-election campaign.
The activities, surveyed in seven ridings across the country that are currently being contested in Federal Court, included erroneous reports of changes in voting station locations as well as faux calls purported to be from Elections Canada, says Ottawa-based Ekos Research Associates.
The Ekos survey, done in mid-April, is the first extensive study using fresh data that has been done of voter suppression allegations since anecdotal evidence of illegal automated calls – the so-called robo-call scandal – began surfacing in February.
... “Liberal supporters were over three times more likely to receive such a call than Conservative Party supporters. Similarly, all opposition voters were dramatically more likely to receive these misleading calls. These results strongly suggest that significant voter-suppression activities took place that were targeted at non-Conservative voters.”
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