Ivison’s latest on the Robocon scandal: The call that claimed to come from Elections Canada was sent out to 5,053 recipients in the 519 area code that covers Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Windsor and Sarnia. But it was also received by 35 people in downtown Toronto, 74 in the 905 suburban
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Where There’s Smoke – There’s Fire and Mirrors
The problem with evidence that you don’t like, is that it doesn’t “feel” right. Our brain actually connects with what feels right, which is why con-artists can stay in business even if their lies are obvious. It takes law enforcement intervention before a con-artist stops conning. This sort of gut
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: It’s the Liberals Calling, No Wait, Conservatives?
RoboCalls were not the only illegal voter suppression strategy used against non-Conservative voters last general election. There was also someone or some party paying big money for live-calls purporting to be from Liberals. Listen to one such call that was caught on voice mail, in London West. Then, on the
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Robocon blogging
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
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – On the Robocon front, Terry Milewski connects the dots between identification of voters as non-Con supporters and the deceptive robocalls that followed. Steven Chase and Daniel Leblanc discuss how Elections Canada figures to determine who placed the Cons’ fraudulent calls, while Glen McGregor
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Still Not Enough Proof
I don’t care if hundreds of Canadians, with specific details, recordings, and corroborating stories (some reported to authorities almost a year before the crime became famous), confirm the Conservative Party is involved. It’s a Liberal smear! And when it’s shown the Liberals didn’t have anything to do with illegal robocalls
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Blocked Comment
I have to include my followup comment on my blog, because this blog suddenly blocked new replies. Most forms of voter suppression are illegal. Attack ads are not included in the illegal category, event though they are shown to statistically reduce voter turnout. The cause for delay in charges cannot
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Is the gun smoking yet?
An investigation by CBC News has turned up voters all over Canada who say the reason they got robocalls sending them to fictitious polling stations was that they had revealed they would not vote Conservative. Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand announced today that he now has over 700 Canadians from
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: How Secure Was CIMS and Your Data?
Sixth Estate has learned that if Pierre Poutine had just asked nicely (or bribed the right people?), they could have had a duplicate copy of CIMS, potentially. It’s not clear if this would be a complete copy, or information only for a local riding. Why is this very important? See
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Poutine Getting Stale – Facts Stay Fresh
Ezra Levant fans are taking the position that there is no scandal. Some go so far as to say there is no evidence, and the Conservative Party wasn’t the obvious benefactor of the Pierre Poutine Scheme to misdirect mostly non-CPC voters away from legitimate polls. Meanwhile, real journalists, who’ve uncovered
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: A Scandalous Opinion
Kelly McParland’s article title intrigued me at first. “A scandalous absence of scandal in robocalls scandal” However, while reading it, I got angry. It wasn’t about the scandal behind how many people are brushing off this severe perversion of our democracy. Kelly’s one of those people brushing it off! And
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Prime Minister’s Guilty Mind
The Prime Minister is acting like someone with a guilty mind. It’s been hard on all Conservatives I’ve spoken with to admit this is the case. Consider you’re a Conservative (if you aren’t), and imagine the possibility that the Prime Minister is implicated in a conspiracy to commit elections fraud.
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Robocon: Bob Rae has one week to protect Canada’s democracy by stopping the clock
Bob Rae – one week to go And a study by a Simon Fraser professor finds that the robocalls could have affected the result of the May 2 2011 election: In a new paper, a Simon Fraser University economist finds that robo-calling, if the phenomenon did occur, could have significantly
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Conservatives Know Protests Don’t Depend On Attendance
Conservatives should know better than anyone that it isn’t the number of people who protest that is important, what matters is why they’re doing it. Many have attacked the turnout of protests against the government in recent years, from the anti-prorogation rallies to protests over the recent robocall scandal. Conservative
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your afternoon reading. – Linda McQuaig writes that Robocon is placing Canada at the forefront of dubious electoral results in the developed world. Which of course means it’s time to evaluate the Cons’ fraud merely as a matter of political damage control, rather than focusing on who’s
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Official Complaints: Nothing Happened
“…Nothing happened” Elizabeth May’s passionate speech imploring our “tough on crime government to get tough on electoral crime!” The video is a week old, but is as relevant at my writing, as it was back then. There’s been additional evidence of micro-targeting though that points to a national party being
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Poutine Delayed is Justice Denied
There’ve been murmurs about renaming the RoboGate/RoboCon/RoboCalls/RoboScam scandal into something else, or dropping a cutesy name altogether. The fact is there were live calls made as well as robodialed calls, where the voice pretended to be representing Elections Canada, and Constitutionally illegal fake information was given to the phone call
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Time for a Full Inquiry, for Dean’s Sake
Dean Del Mastro, March 1: “We learned that Joe Volpe paid over $25,000 to Prime Contact, a calling company with offices in North Dakota. These calls were made on behalf of the Liberal party. I see that they used this company quite a bit. It seems that they were robodialing
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Sixth Estate rounds up the party and organizational affiliations on Canada’s major opinion pages. And in case anybody was wondering why our political dialogue so often has nothing at all to do with the public’s real concerns about inequality and instability: I
Continue readingMichael Sona speaks out. UPDATED: It appears to be a hoax.
UPDATE: @saskboy advises this video is a fake. @PopeShakey provides the photo evidence: “I have a lot more dirt than this and it’s all going to come out now.” “By the way everybody, there are worse and more disturbing Robocalls to come.” H/T: @PopeShakey
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