Misleading Robocalls Went To Voters ID'd As Non-Tories 148
silentbrad writes "An investigation by CBC News has turned up voters all over Canada who say the reason they got robocalls sending them to fictitious polling stations was that they'd revealed they would not vote Conservative. Although the Conservative Party has denied any involvement in the calls, these new details suggest that the misleading calls relied on data gathered by, and carefully guarded by, the Conservative Party. Known as 'CIMS,' the database assigns a 'smiley' face to supporters, and a 'sad' face to non-Conservatives. Liberal and NDP politicians say it would make no sense to call randomly, since many of the voters misled would be Conservatives."
Re:Kettle, black, etc (Score:5, Informative)
You're confusing accusations with facts. It was a Liberal staff member that leaked the information about Toews, not an NDP politician as the Conservatives initially claimed (without evidence).
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/02/27/pol-liberals-vikileaks.html [www.cbc.ca]
Re:Kettle, black, etc (Score:2, Informative)
You mean "leaked" the publicly available divorce information about Toews porking his babysiter?
All information on divorce dockets is freely available on the internet. Suck it.
Conservatives admit.... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:It makes no sense at all (Score:5, Informative)
During their last term, the Conservatives:
- were convicted of campaign finance fraud (the in-and-out scandal), using accounting tricks to funnel more money than allowed into critical campaigns,
- suspended parliament to kill an inquiry into the treatment of Afghan detainees,
- were found in contempt of parliament for refusing to disclose the cost of several big ticket items (including law & order programs, corporate tax cuts and purchasing fighters.) This is the first time a British style parliament anywhere has been found in contempt.
Then we had an election, and voted them back in, this time with a majority. So, yeah, they figure than pretty much get away with it.