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Originally Posted by EdWard
So you asked for examples of where Del Mastro and Harper blamed the Liberals and I provided them, do you have reported examples of where Conservatives were told to go to the wrong polling station? Just curious.
The Pepper industry and Jean Chretien might question your assertion that Milewski has always been against the Conservatives, but that is just a hunch.
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http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/0...substantiated/
And the quotes you provided from DDM were pretty damaging to be sure. I've never really liked that guy and nothing he's really done through the course of this hoo-ha has changed that. Having said that, DDM was clearly wrong that the Liberals used that particular US based firm with the same name as the Canadian based firm. He wasn't wrong that the Liberals (and NDP and Greenies for that matter) made use of Robocalls, as well as calls from call centers and volunteers during the election campaign.
Again, there are many things at play here. The most important is obviously the robocalls that were intentionally misdirecting voters to the wrong polling location. Those are very bad, illegal, and anyone involved should be punished. It is my belief that these are likely a very small number, and probably targeted in one riding with perhaps some spillover if someone wasn't too careful about the calling list used.
Then there were legitimate calls made by probably all parties trying to get out their vote. Some of those may have inadvertently misdirected voters (humans make mistakes) but I don't believe they were intentional or malicious.
Next most egregious, and illegal, is the robocalls pretending to be a fictitious person and not identifying the political party that paid for the call while attempting to suppress your opponents vote. These are absolutely illegal and should be looked at closely as well.
Then there were the harassing phone calls, the lying about your opponents position on things, the supposed "pretending to be the other campaign" and being rude, or calling at dinnertime complaints. There is nothing to substantiate anything here.
That doesn't even touch on the vandalism of signs, the stealing of campaign material from the mailboxes at the door, the dead donors of funds to get around campaign financing rules, etc.
Bottom line, politics in this country is a mess - and it makes me sad.