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Originally Posted by old-fart
Really need to seperate out the various complaints though. The "robo-dialer trying to send us to the wrong polling station" is a very serious issue and needs to be looked at very closely and those responsible held accountable.
Having said that, the opposition party trying to lump things like "they called at dinner time" and "they said Doctor Carolyn Bennet" and "they called on the Sabbath" and "they had a fake accent" as part of some grand conspiracy is idiotic. I'd suggest all parties made calls to people during inconvenient times, and all call centers probably have people with different accents that some idiot thinks is being faked to annoy them.
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I agree that the most serious issue here is the calls that were made in the name of Elections Canada, which were deliberate attempts to disrupt voters.
But some of the other calls, where someone not associated with a campaign blatantly attempting to harass potential voters deserves consideration in the context of the whole conversation. It's a false pretense and if left unchecked sets a bad precedent for elections moving forward.