[Donny_Brasco]

$1:

Liberal Party Asks Elections Canada to Investigate Conservative Mailings
January 21, 2006



Ottawa – The Liberal Party of Canada has asked Elections Canada to investigate why Conservative printed pieces in at least four ridings across the province of Ontario – targeted to specific neighbourhoods in those ridings – are giving incorrect information with respect to polling stations.

Liberal National Campaign Director Karl Littler, in a letter to Jean-Pierre Kingsley, the nation's chief electoral officer, said:

"Whether through error or disinformation, we are concerned about the erroneous information being provided and its potential to frustrate the democratic process."

Mr. Littler asks Mr. Kingsley for assistance:

"We ask that you intercede with the Conservative National Campaign to address this situation."

The four ridings involved – Simcoe North, Barrie, Burlington, and Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale – have all been targeted by the Conservative Party publicly as ridings they intend to win.

The Liberal Party is asking voters to ensure they check with Elections Canada to determine the location of their polling station for Monday.

I guess sending people to the wrong place is ethical practice if your a conservative.

[Tricks]

How about the liberals taking advanced voting stations out of a university in one of the closest ridings from the last election? It was within 800 votes, 4000 students. Half of the student will probably not vote.

[Donny_Brasco]

Tricks Tricks:

How about the liberals taking advanced voting stations out of a university in one of the closest ridings from the last election? It was within 800 votes, 4000 students. Half of the student will probably not vote.

Typically university students lean left. I'm not sure how that helps the liberals.

[hwacker]

He thinks capitalizing the header of his thread will make it more important. Guess what, it doesn’t.

Oh btw where is the source for this crap?

[Tricks]

Donny_Brasco Donny_Brasco:

Tricks Tricks:

How about the liberals taking advanced voting stations out of a university in one of the closest ridings from the last election? It was within 800 votes, 4000 students. Half of the student will probably not vote.

Typically university students lean left. I'm not sure how that helps the liberals.

Yeah, far left. It was between NDP and Liberal. Chances are, students will vote NDP because of the promise to lower University costs

[Donny_Brasco]

Tricks Tricks:

Donny_Brasco Donny_Brasco:

Tricks Tricks:

How about the liberals taking advanced voting stations out of a university in one of the closest ridings from the last election? It was within 800 votes, 4000 students. Half of the student will probably not vote.

Typically university students lean left. I'm not sure how that helps the liberals.

Yeah, far left. It was between NDP and Liberal. Chances are, students will vote NDP because of the promise to lower University costs

And I think Elections Canada determines where the polling stations are, not the parties.

[Tricks]

Donny_Brasco Donny_Brasco:

Tricks Tricks:

Donny_Brasco Donny_Brasco:

Tricks Tricks:

How about the liberals taking advanced voting stations out of a university in one of the closest ridings from the last election? It was within 800 votes, 4000 students. Half of the student will probably not vote.

Typically university students lean left. I'm not sure how that helps the liberals.

Yeah, far left. It was between NDP and Liberal. Chances are, students will vote NDP because of the promise to lower University costs

And I think Elections Canada determines where the polling stations are, not the parties.

Oh really? Then why are the liberals now challenging the U of T stations?

[hwacker]

Tricks Tricks:

Donny_Brasco Donny_Brasco:

Tricks Tricks:

Donny_Brasco Donny_Brasco:

Tricks Tricks:

How about the liberals taking advanced voting stations out of a university in one of the closest ridings from the last election? It was within 800 votes, 4000 students. Half of the student will probably not vote.

Typically university students lean left. I'm not sure how that helps the liberals.

Yeah, far left. It was between NDP and Liberal. Chances are, students will vote NDP because of the promise to lower University costs

And I think Elections Canada determines where the polling stations are, not the parties.

Oh really? Then why are the liberals now challenging the U of T stations?

cause the cup with the straws in it is almost empty.

[Donny_Brasco]

Tricks Tricks:

Donny_Brasco Donny_Brasco:

Tricks Tricks:

Donny_Brasco Donny_Brasco:

Tricks Tricks:

How about the liberals taking advanced voting stations out of a university in one of the closest ridings from the last election? It was within 800 votes, 4000 students. Half of the student will probably not vote.

Typically university students lean left. I'm not sure how that helps the liberals.

Yeah, far left. It was between NDP and Liberal. Chances are, students will vote NDP because of the promise to lower University costs

And I think Elections Canada determines where the polling stations are, not the parties.

Oh really? Then why are the liberals now challenging the U of T stations?

Give me a source so I can check it out.

[Donny_Brasco]

$1:

Elections Canada has agreed to set up a polling station at York University for this month's federal election, reversing an earlier decision that outraged students at the country's second largest university.

In past federal elections, York students have had the option of voting on campus, as have their peers at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto.

The liberals have nothing to do with this. Maybe its a conservative ploy. Like I said, University students usually vote left.

[hwacker]

Donny_Brasco Donny_Brasco:

$1:

Elections Canada has agreed to set up a polling station at York University for this month's federal election, reversing an earlier decision that outraged students at the country's second largest university.

In past federal elections, York students have had the option of voting on campus, as have their peers at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto.

The liberals have nothing to do with this. Maybe its a conservative ploy. Like I said, University students usually vote left.

Bullshit.

[Tricks]

Donny_Brasco Donny_Brasco:

$1:

Elections Canada has agreed to set up a polling station at York University for this month's federal election, reversing an earlier decision that outraged students at the country's second largest university.

In past federal elections, York students have had the option of voting on campus, as have their peers at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto.

The liberals have nothing to do with this. Maybe its a conservative ploy. Like I said, University students usually vote left.

My mistake They reinstated the one at york....though the one at U of T is not so lucky

http://www.excal.on.ca/index.php?option ... 7&Itemid=2

$1:

Since members of Liberal Tony Ianno's campaign - not Elections Canada - first expressed concerns about the legality of the special stations, cancelling the campus' stations may have been politically motivated. Ianno is running for re-election in Trinity-Spadina (the larger of U of T's two St. George ridings).
There is some feeling in the riding that New Democratic Party candidate Olivia Chow stands to gain from higher student turnout, as there is sizeable NDP support on campus. (In the last election, held after students returned home in the spring, she lost by only about 800 votes.)
Tom Allison, campaign manager for Ianno, confirmed that he contacted a party lawyer, who called Elections Canada to raise the possibility that the special stations were not legal. He said that Elections Canada was not aware of the stations, and decided to cancel them. He insists that he was just trying to make sure that everything was done by the book.

[Donny_Brasco]

$1:

"There are no provisions in [elections law] for [this special voting] to take place," he insisted.
"We only asked the question, ‘Is this legal?' And Elections Canada said, ‘No.'"

So what happened to the rule of law?

[Tricks]

Donny_Brasco Donny_Brasco:

$1:

"There are no provisions in [elections law] for [this special voting] to take place," he insisted.
"We only asked the question, ‘Is this legal?' And Elections Canada said, ‘No.'"

So what happened to the rule of law?

I could ask the same thing to the liberal party, but they don't seem to care either. Funny how they care now though

[Donny_Brasco]

Tricks Tricks:

Donny_Brasco Donny_Brasco:

$1:

"There are no provisions in [elections law] for [this special voting] to take place," he insisted.
"We only asked the question, ‘Is this legal?' And Elections Canada said, ‘No.'"

So what happened to the rule of law?

I could ask the same thing to the liberal party, but they don't seem to care either. Funny how they care now though

Funny how you don't.