Green party's Elizabeth May wants new investigation of 2011 election robocalls
Green Party leader Elizabeth May has asked the Commissioner of Canada Elections to reopen his investigation into 2011 election robocalls based on two related court decisions that found the Conservative Party’s voter-tracking database was likely the source of misleading calls.
May wrote to Commissioner Yves Côté on Thursday to make a formal complaint about what she alleges is “widespread, co-ordinated voter fraud in at least eight electoral districts during the 2011 election.”
The request comes as Côté’s office says it is no longer investigating the robocalls case after former Conservative Party campaign worker Michael Sona was last week sentenced to nine months in jail for his role in the robocalls sent to more than 7,000 voters in Guelph, Ont. The office said it could not investigate unless it received a complaint based on new information.
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In her letter to Côté, May refers to judgments in the Sona case as well as the judgment issued in 2013 in a Federal Court legal challenge of election results in six ridings, which was backed by the Council of Canadians, a left-leaning public-interest group.
In those cases, Judge Richard Mosley found insufficient evidence to overturn the election results in the ridings but did find a “concerted campaign by persons who had access to a database of voter information maintained by a political party.”
In the Guelph case, Judge Gary Hearn found Sona had been involved in the automated calls arranged using the pseudonym “Pierre Poutine,” but also said it was likely others were involved. Hearn also said it appeared the list of identified non-Conservatives supporters came from the Conservative Party’s Constituent Information Management System.
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