Elections Canada has said it doesn’t phone electors but new documents obtained through the access to information system show they did phone some voters and the determining factor was race.
For the last three federal campaigns, Elections Canada has hired the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) to target select ridings with phone calls aimed at boosting the native vote. (…)
Amidst the claims and counterclaims in the “robocall” controversy in the last election, Elections Canada has been definitive in saying it did not call voters in the days leading up to the 2011 vote.
Complaints have been levied against the Conservatives over claims of fake or misleading phone calls in several ridings in what opposition parties argue was an attempt to suppress the vote for other parties.
The Conservatives have questioned whether some of those who say they received calls were actually called by other parties or by Elections Canada…
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Joke #1:
They thought they were hiring “red dot” call center Indians, not “Work? What’s that?” Indians, so none of the calls ever got made anyhow.
Joke #2:
When all those progressive patsies claiming they got illegal calls find out the callers were natives, will they back off now, for fear of being called “racists” for complaining?
