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Massive irregularities
Friday, January 20, 2006 at 11:25 PM

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From small dead animals:

Via campaign manager Victor Marciano:

Laurie Hawn, Conservative Candidate in Edmonton Centre, has filed a complaint with the Commissioner of Elections Canada after massive voter list irregularities were uncovered by his campaign.

For some time, there have been rumors of election irregularities in Edmonton Centre. At an all candidates meeting with Elections Canada on January 4, 2006, it was revealed that two buildings had been struck from the electoral rolls because they were not residences. In reality, these buildings were both mailbox stores.

Several days later, the Laurie Hawn campaign identified a third non-residence building which sells mail boxes and reported it to Elections Canada.

A few days ago, the Laurie Hawn campaign was alerted, via e-mail, by an Edmonton lawyer that:

"Lots of [Anne McLellan] supporters are enumerated at their downtown office address instead of at their houses. One of them was bragging about how many times he could vote liberal (sic) based on the number of leases he had in her riding."

This has to be the saddest story out of this election. Stuffed ballot boxes? Repeated voting? I hope it's not true, but apparently there is enough evidence to file a complaint.

Individual MPs saying stupid things, dumb stunts by their supporters, unfunny jokes on blogs -- people do silly things during elections.

But electoral fraud? This is our democracy we're talking about here. What's the point of having elections in the first place? Is it just a show for the cameras? Something to make the proles feel good every few years while the Liberals enrich themselves?

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