Thursday, July 5, 2012

"Find one voter who didn't vote because of our fraud!"


There were an UNPRECEDENTED number of complaints about electoral irregularities arising out of the 2011 federal election. Call centres, in the pay of the Conservative Party of Canada, were (among other things) giving voters deliberately false information about polling stations moving to new locations. As part of their ridiculous, intelligence-insulting defence of themselves, Conservatives and their revolting supporters, are actually demanding that we produce evidence of anyone having not voted as a result of their fraud.

In the first place, these actions were CRIMES, the penalty for each of which is $5,000 and/or 5 years in prison. We don't have to prove that the criminal acts succeeded in their goals to make them illegal. Dumb-fucks.

In the second place, while it's interesting that so far nobody has come forward to say that they didn't vote due to the Conservatives' criminal behaviour, and while someone should definitely do a poll to establish whether or not anyone was discouraged by the Conservatives' crimes, let's consider this question: Do political parties ask people specifically whether they voted because of their campaign commercials or their phone calls? Or do they consult statistics and make inferences based on the correlation of poll results to campaign ads and such? If they do do that, are they being witless dupes, throwing money down the toilet?

Anyway, the Conservative Party's methods are no way to conduct democracy in a mature society. And we are obligated to target such behaviour with extreme prejudice.

5 comments:

Gloria said...

Elections Canada did interview people who were cheated out of their vote. However, Corbett resigned from Elections Canada. In Corbett's place, Harper installed, one of his own boys, Yves Corte. That's why Harper is flapping off at his mouth. Harper was desperately trying to quash the robo-call cheat election fraud. What does that tell us?

Same as the Etioboke Center election being overturned by the courts. The disputed ridings are being appealed. Harper has been trying to prevent that investigation too. However, Harper has installed two new Conservative judges. What are the odds, one of Harper's new judges, will hear the appeals, to stop the investigation? I think we all know.

Harper is every bit as hateful as, Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini. All of them have the same typo personalities, including Harper.

Owen Gray said...

It's interesting, isn't it? They argue that unless you can prove someone voted incorrectly, there was no crime.

Intent is meaningless.

thwap said...

Gloria and Owen,

I think all of this speaks to the reality that we're dealing with some really ugly people here.

Purple library guy said...

Better get the police up to speed on this legal theory pronto. Sting operations just became pointless, since I understand that normally nobody actually becomes a victim of crime during those, so evidently none of the targets did anything wrong and nobody can be convicted.

thwap said...

PLG,

It's one ludicrous outburst after another with these idiots isn't it?

It makes one weep to know that they're political contenders, even without their cheating.