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tuvor

(15,663 posts)
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 10:18 PM Feb 2012

National 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/

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National Post: Fraudulent election calls traced to Edmonton firm with Tory links (Original Post) tuvor Feb 2012 OP
Right wingers are crooks and cheaters no matter where they hail from... rfranklin Feb 2012 #1
+1 applegrove Feb 2012 #3
Typical Conservative party stunt TrogL Feb 2012 #2
Follow CHIMO Feb 2012 #4
I'm SHOCKED. Utterly SHOCKED. laundry_queen Feb 2012 #5
I wonder who will be the fall guy for this one? daleo Feb 2012 #6
I'm sure the PMO will blame the NDP for it somehow. (nt) Posteritatis Feb 2012 #8
It looks like they will pin it on a 23 year old operative daleo Feb 2012 #9
More evidence... CanSocDem Feb 2012 #7
 

rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
1. Right wingers are crooks and cheaters no matter where they hail from...
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 10:22 PM
Feb 2012

They just don't have the morals of liberals.

TrogL

(32,822 posts)
2. Typical Conservative party stunt
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 10:26 PM
Feb 2012

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

daleo

(21,317 posts)
6. I wonder who will be the fall guy for this one?
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 03:01 PM
Feb 2012

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".

daleo

(21,317 posts)
9. It looks like they will pin it on a 23 year old operative
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 12:55 AM
Feb 2012

It's typical. I don't expect the RCMP investigation will amount to a hill of beans either.

 

CanSocDem

(3,286 posts)
7. More evidence...
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 05:10 PM
Feb 2012


...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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