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Originally Posted by old-fart
Totally agree with your second paragraph, but it is a different issue. Those types of calls are in the same vein as removing your opponents campaign material from the mailbox as you drop yours in, stealing or defacing campaign signs, and telling people that your opponent is a big meanie and smells funny - or worse posting your opponents divorce paperwork online. Dirty tricks sure, but every single party does them. Every. Single. One. For the opposition to suggest that people were called by someone identifying themselves as calling on behalf of the Conservative Party and they called at dinner and had a funny accent - ergo the Conseratives used dirty tricks to steal the election is beyond the pale.
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No, this is a different situation entirely. Not every party phones people and harasses them pretending to be someone else. Nice try though.