saanich gulf islands

Global News finds that Elections Canada received 30 complaints about phone calls that conveyed false information about polling stations. The Toronto Star talks to one voter in Saanich-Gulf Islands.

I count 11 ridings that have so far been linked to allegations that voters were called about their polling stations: Guelph, Kitchener Centre, Kitchener-Conestoga, Kitchener-Waterloo, London West, Parkdale-High Park, Nipissing-Timiskaming, Elmwood-Transcona, Winnipeg South Centre, Sydney-Victoria and Saanich-Gulf Islands. (For sourcing see here, here, here, here and here.)

The Green Party reports that Saanich-Gulf Islands was also the scene of suspicious calls. Elizabeth May tells me that her campaign office received about a dozen calls on election day from voters who said they had received calls about their polling stations. She’s not sure whether the calls were automated or whether the information was relayed by actual human beings. But she is fairly resolute on the magnitude of the issue at hand.

The Record finds a report of fraudulent calls in Kitchener Centre.

Here are some 1,600 words on Elizabeth May and her relative chances in Saanich-Gulf Islands. We talked a few weeks ago and she was her usual charming and undaunted self.

Elizabeth May takes aim at Saanich-Gulf Islands in what could be her last attempt to win a seat in the House

NDP candidate West quits over skinny-dipping brouhaha