The story of vote suppression in last year’s federal election has moved ahead this week on two different tracks. Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher, the journalists who originally broke the story of the Elections Canada investigation, delivered another installment this week. They’re reporting that EC investigators have now shifted their
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Peace, order and good government, eh?: Is this really the story you want go with?
Burke campaign paperwork could have aided Guelph robodialling A mysterious operative known only as Pierre Poutine could have obtained the ammunition he needed to launch his election-day attack on the electorate simply by walking into the campaign office of Guelph Conservative candidate Marty Burke. … …sources close to the Burke
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This will be a short post for the simple reason that there hasn’t been a lot of movement on this story in the last week. The most dramatic development was the claim by Brian-Michel LaRue at #CDNPOLI that the real identity of Pierre Poutine is Andrew Prescott, who was the
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Since the dramatic revelations in last week’s committee testimony by Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand, there has been very little additional movement in the main robocon story. For the moment, it’s up to Elections Canada to keep digging. But journalists and bloggers are trying to fill in some of the
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Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand appeared before the Procedure and House Affairs Committee yesterday and gave us a whole new set of numbers to talk about. Elections Canada has more than 800 specific complaints of wrongdoing with regards to last year’s federal election involving approximately 200 ridings right across
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I was off the grid for a couple of days and have spent this morning trying to pick up the threads of this story. I’m relying primarily on other bloggers to get a sense of where things stand. Right now it looks like it’s a waiting game to see both
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I had fully intended to do a recap of the week’s news regarding the investigation into the possibility of vote suppression in last year’s federal election and yesterday afternoon I began to draft something. Yesterday evening I saw the news and gutted the first few paragraphs of the draft. Since
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