Ryan Hastman’s campaign office is filing an official complaint with Elections Canada alleging that 550 names in the hotly contested Edmonton-Strathcona riding are “bogus and invalid.” After the Conservatives lost the riding in an extremely close race three years ago, the Tory candidate says he isn’t taking any chances.
In 2008, Linda Duncan received just 460 more votes than the runner-up, Conservative incumbent Rahim Jaffer in the race.
“In a close race like this, every vote will count,” said Hastman. “It’s important that only valid addresses are included in the voters list.”
Hastman’s campaign office claims the bogus entries in the Elections Canada’s voters list include several businesses — including a hemp store and a gas station — and an empty field. The office also alleges that hundreds of voters are also registered at addresses of industrial companies, storage lockers and private mail boxes.
Now is the time at SDA when we flashback!
[T]he Laurie Hawn campaign acquired a City of Edmonton map which listed all buildings and their street addresses and began thoroughly checking the revised voters list….
# Almost 100 apparently nonexistent addresses in Edmonton’s downtown core – in some cases, the addresses listed fictional residences in between two genuine buildings
# Hundreds of people registered to vote out of their law offices, medical offices, accounting offices, and Government of Canada offices – in some cases these may be genuine errors, but in other cases, entire families are registered to vote out of high rise office space
# Dozens of people registered to vote out of office towers, but who did not list a suite number, causing the address to read similarly to ordinary residences – in many cases, these people are also registered to vote in other ridings using their home addresses, and in other cases, voters living in other ridings are only registered in Edmonton Centre
# Dozens of people registered to vote out of small mail box locations and from self-storage yards – there is no legitimate way for a person to appear on the list of Electors from a self-storage yard
# Eighteen people registered to vote out of a truck stop
# People registered to vote out of karaoke bars, lingerie stores, dance lounges, galleries, etc…
Related – Judge rules byelection needed in Ward 9
Hey, why don’t we send Canadians to oversee the elections? No wait!
Does Acorn know about this?
But isn’t cheating OK as long as it’s for a worthy cause?
Of course the lazy MSM and EC want to focus on the CPC in and out ‘scandal’ ‘cuz it’s just too sexy.
😉
My-My, this so sounds just like WA state and our Gov election..)-:
probably paid for the local NDP Labour Council or Liberal Party money left over from ADSCAM
Conservatives undermining democracy by disenfranchising non-existent people.
This election is really making Canada look like a banana republic and if the three stoges (Iggy, Wacky and Chillles) get their chance they will turn us into one.
“We still feel that if there were any imperfections it affected all candidates equally, so by that standard the playing field was even.”
…so spoke the logic of the winning candidate!
While they’re at it, EC could look into polling stations on native reserves in which 125% of eligible voters cast ballots — 98% Liberal. Should I hold my breath?
Winning feels good,
so cheating to win is good.
If it feels good ,,, do it.
Leftist government is for our own good you see.
And oil sand jobs can be transferred to windmill jobs.
News Flash
CBC Vote Compass confirms…
100% of the Cemetery vote should go to the Liberals!
altaguy, we should not discriminate based on whether people can breath or not, that is profiling.
WalterF got it exactly right. This is further proof that Harperites want dictatorial powers by not allowing the death and imaginary people to express their democratic rights!
http://savecapitalism.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/i-need-a-break-but-ill-be-back/
Our friend at Save Capitalism is depressed. Kate, would it be possible to link over to him and tell people to leave him positive, cheerful comments?
PCP
Who will be the first dead person to take a case to one of our many human rights commissions?
I’m with you. I think it’s shameful that we won’t allow dead people to vote.
Look- if Sir John A. Macdonald wishes to vote out of his dance club, then that is his right!
MSM are celebrating because Layton is ahead of Iggy. Doesn’t it seem rather ironic that “liberals” have to turn to a “socialist” because their guy is so terrible – not because Layton is so good. They have no choice I guess because they don’t like Conservative values such as giving harsher sentences to criminals.
I thought these sort of shenanigans only happened in third world places like Michigan, Nevada, Delaware and Wisconsin.
Ghost, the best candidate to take on this cause is Canada foremost “political celebrity corpse” PET. If he is not available maybe we can ask Bob Rae.
I’m with you. I think it’s shameful that we won’t allow dead people to vote. – Ed
He who wields the Ouija board rules the world.
(OK, just Canada but world sounds more impressive)
For those of you not familiar with Toronto, Ward 9 corresponds almost completely with York Centre riding, currently held by Ken Dryden. His margin of victory was just about 2,000 votes on 42000 votes in total. It is close.
But no worries I am sure Elections Canada will be watching this closely, since we know they are rule sticklers…..right?
Meanwhile, in Vancouver, liberals file a complaint with Elections Canada because kids engage in illegal campaigning by kicking over their election signs.
elections canada is staffed by diehard liberals so do no expect any action
Remember as Stalin said, “Its not those who vote that count, its those who count their votes.”.
The comments at the Sun are not very flattering to the people running the Conservative campaign.
The writers claim the Conservative people are going around at night putting up signs on people’s lawns without permission,leaving a note in the person’s mailbox to call a phone # if they want it removed.
Sort of like the negative billing the cable companies all used a few years back.
Here in Kelowna,I’ve taken it on myself to go to the graveyards and copy the name off every grave marker.
Unfortunately,I can’t seem to find the local Coalition candidate to sell them to.
Next, Iggy blasts Harper for calling on Elections Canada to not accept a Death Certificate as valid ID.
“Rahim Jaffer”
oooooh. be careful what you wish for.
that looks like a muzzie handle.
“I thought these sort of shenanigans only happened in third world places like Michigan, Nevada, Delaware and Wisconsin.
Posted by: Brian Mallard at April 22, 2011 1:34 PM ”
and florida too there mr duck. google it. 2000, 2004. feel free to add ‘disenfranchised black voters’ in the search string.
A famous and apparently not apocryphal story in newfoundland happened during a mid-sixties federal election when Lester Pearson was campaigning in St John’s. In an open convertible with Joey smallwood, the motorcade took a short cut alongside a cemetery where no one was standing along the roadside.
Joey remained standing and waving to the tombstones whilst pearson took his seat. Joey shouted down to Pearson “stand up and wave Lester!! These are your best, most loyal voters!!”.
I read somewhere recently that for a Republican to win in certain states, he must win by at least a 10% margin in order to counter the bogus Democrat votes.
Saw all kinds of this in Calgary Centre in 2004, 2006. Mailboxes, etc. was a favourite, as well as commercial addresses. No surprise here.
Hmmm. Rahim Jaffer. Do you think Helena knew about this? Sounds like he was padding his vote. Maybe Harper found out about this.
I live in Edm Strathcona, and the bogus address thing is only one of the shenanigans going on. Perhaps a more flagrant one is that, since the election is on May 2 and University is out by then, the pressure is on heavy to get students out vote coalition at advance polls, using an address that they currently have (e.g. University residences), not the one they will have on election day. The fact that this is ILLEGAL does not seem to bother the NDP/Lib supporters, who are united to try to get Ms. Duncan back in.
Desperate measures by desperate people.
Sorry, I said “flagrant” when I meant “significant”, as in more likely to effect the election outcome.
We should be using purple thumbs. Prove your citizenship and address, get a ballot, fill it out, put it in the box and dip your thumb in purple ink. Everyone only votes once.
Wherever a liberal is a candidate voter fraud is sure to follow if given half a chance.