“Elections Canada hires 14 new ‘frontline’ staff to examine more than 31,000 complaints on voter suppression issue.” Ramping up staff, part of that flexing of whatever is needed: “The Commissioner of Canada Elections has the authority, during periods of high volume, to contract additional resources or call upon other law
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somecanuckchick dot com: The Robocon Scandal that was and wasn’t…
REPEAT AFTER ME: An issue-based call is not a voter suppression call. An issue-based call, setting out where [Conservative candidate Marty Burke] stood on the issue — of Abortion — is not remotely the same as a voter suppression call where voters were targeted, with calls claiming to be from Elections
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Toronto’s Voter Suppression Protest
If you live in southern Ontario, you know that yesterday was a gift, with sunny skies and temperatures reaching about 15 degrees Celsius, surpassing normal highs by about 11 degrees. A crowd of maybe 1000 gathered in Toronto’s Dundas Square to protest the threats against our democracy epitomized by the
Continue readingFar and Wide: Robocall Impact
I find it a bit odd, the rush to verdict on the robocall affair, particularly when it’s clearly an evolving story, that is nowhere near crescendo. How anyone can make definitive conclusion on resonance escapes me, particularly seasoned observers like a Gerry Nichols for example. Much of the impetus for
Continue readingOh please
In what deranged, demented, scum-ridden universe is this the equivalent of this? I haven’t read up on this Electoral Fraud thing that has apparently been perpetrated enough to make any in-depth comments on it. However, I do know that a campaign of calls purposely directing people to the wrong polling
Continue readingManning Centre’s inclusive policies: Stephen Maher thrown out of conference. Replies, “kiss my ass”.
This is disgusting. Stephen Maher, along with Glen McGregor, is doing a yeoman’s job of reporting the beginnings of the Robocalls scandal. For his honest work, which incidentally appears in the right-wing National Post, the Manning Centre has booted him from their conference. Must not have any reporting that might not
Continue readingManning Centre’s inclusive policies: Stephen Maher thrown out of conference. Replies, "kiss my ass".
This is disgusting. Stephen Maher, along with Glen McGregor, is doing a yeoman’s job of reporting the beginnings of the Robocalls scandal. For his honest work, which incidentally appears in the right-wing National Post, the Manning Centre has booted him from their conference. Must not have any reporting that might
Continue readingImpolitical: Building democracy
Here was Preston Manning speaking to the media yesterday on voter suppression: Speaking to reporters, Manning said all parties should be worried about robocall vote-suppression during the 2011 election that directed some voters to the wrong polling stations and which has Elections Canada investigating complaints of voter fraud. “I think
Continue readingImpolitical: Early evening robocon
Polling on election fraud allegations…it’s going to happen, might as well take a looksy: “Canadians split on who’s to blame for robocalls: poll.” From Ipsos, it is said to be a “blended telephone and online poll this week of 3,154 Canadians…”(1001 telephone/2153 online). While the headline is playing up a
Continue readingTrashy's World: Friday miscellany…
… O M G! The SKY is falling edition… Literally. The sky. Falling. Yup. The sun burps and we all freak out. Oh no! The GPS on my iPhone might lose some of its precision!!!! Anyhow, the solar “storm” seems to have had little impact and we can all carry
Continue readingTrashy's World: Jason Kenney rises in the House…
… to screech that fraudulent calls were the result of a massive solar storm. Possibly caused by Stephen Dion. Or Taliban Bob. Solar system frauds. A proud legacy of the Conservative Party of Canada. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: 5 Robocon Facts
FACT: The Conservative Party of Canada is the only party presently being investigated for robocalls made during the last election. FACT: The Conservative Party of Canada was named in the search warrant which compelled RackNine to turn over documents pertaining to robocalls made in the riding of Guelph. FACT: The
Continue readingLeDaro: Stephen Harper- More Robocalls Discovered
Stephen Harper was offering free Viagra for votes.:)
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: The Cremation of Canadian Democracy – With apologies to Robert Service
There are strange things done ‘neath the Canadian sunBy politicians lusting for power;The backroom boys have their techno-toysThat would make your blood go sour;The ballot boxes have seen sly foxes,But the slyest they ever did seeWas on election day, t…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: The Cremation of Canadian Democracy – With apologies to Robert Service
There are strange things done ‘neath the Canadian sunBy politicians lusting for power;The backroom boys have their techno-toysThat would make your blood go sour;The ballot boxes have seen sly foxes,But the slyest they ever did seeWas on election day, the second of MayWhen they butchered democracy. In two thousand eleven,
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: The Cremation of Canadian Democracy – With apologies to Robert Service
There are strange things done ‘neath the Canadian sunBy politicians lusting for power;The backroom boys have their techno-toysThat would make your blood go sour;The ballot boxes have seen sly foxes,But the slyest they ever did seeWas on election day, the second of MayWhen they butchered democracy. In two thousand eleven,
Continue readingImpolitical: Conservative phone call harassment on tape
Listen to the tapes here. A former employee of RMG said things like this: «Oh, vous n’êtes pas un conservateur? Nous ne voulons pas parler à un socialiste ou à un séparatiste.» The former employee of RMG has been let go, here are the apologies: Le collecteur de fonds Don
Continue readingAung San Suu Kyi to John Baird: When it comes to voting, today’s Myanmar a lot like Harper’s Canada
She didn’t say that in those words of course but her sly mention of voter irregularities could not have been better timed and said to a better person. “We have just discovered there are many, many irregularities on the voters’ lists, and we have applied to the election commission to
Continue readingImpolitical: Harper reverses on new audit powers for Elections Canada
“Tories agree to new audit powers for Elections Canada.” The Conservative government has reversed course and now says it will support an NDP motion to give Elections Canada increased audit powers. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has battled the federal elections watchdog for much of his political career, told the
Continue readingManning Centre’s voter suppression school
Must read article from the Vancouver Observer on the creepy Manning Centre’s 2010 ‘campaign school’. Here’s a little of what one attendee, John Fryer, discovered. (emphasis mine). The conversation that followed was deeply disturbing to Fryer. In a question and answer session, attendees discussed voter suppression tactics. They talked about
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