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Mathews also interviewed Chris Crawford, a worker on the Guelph campaign who now serves a director of parliamentary affairs to Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Peter Penashue.

Crawford told Mathews that, while in Burke’s campaign office, he had heard Sona speaking to campaign manager Ken Morgan about “how Americans do politics.” The conversation referred to calling non-supporters late at night, pretending to be Liberals, or calling electors to tell them their polling stations had moved.

Elections Canada officials scrambled to correct apparent misinformation going to voters through robocalls in the three days leading up to the May 2, 2011, federal election, newly released emails show.

At 4:05 p.m. ET, another lawyer for Elections Canada sent an email to the Conservative Party's lawyer detailing the calls that had gone to voters in:

Avalon, N.L.
West Nova, N.S.
Cardigan, P.E.I.
Ontario ridings of Ajax-Pickering, Halton, Kingston and the Islands, Kitchener-Conestoga, and Vaughan.
Manitoba ridings of Kildonan-St. Paul, Saint-Boniface and Winnipeg Centre.

"These calls are continuing and the frequency of calls seems to be increasing," Karen McNeil wrote to the Conservative Party.

She also included a list of the phone numbers that voters had reported. An hour later, Elections Canada got their first report from British Columbia about calls allegedly redirecting voters in Prince George-Peace River. In another email, McNeil told Hawdur that she'd tried two of the numbers. One "sounds legitimately like the Conservative Party of Canada. The other message is more generic; it could be anyone's voicemail message... It's also not in English and French."

The first report from Guelph, Ont., the riding at the centre of allegations about misleading robocalls, came in at 10:41 a.m. on election day. Conservative officials say what happened in Guelph was an isolated case of a rogue campaign and that they are co-operating with the agency in its investigation into the riding.

"We received seven calls from [returning officers] just this morning," Hawdur wrote in an email. Another official responded to ask whether the calls were from across the country. "We just got a call from a [field liaison officer] in for Guelph, saying that they were being hit "badly," Natalie Babin-Dufresne wrote. Hawdur replied that it was right across the country, except in Saskatchewan. "It appears it is getting worse. Some [returning officers] reported that the calls are allegedly identifying Elections Canada," she wrote.

Elections Canada investigators are tracking complaints of misleading or harassing phone calls in 56 ridings during the 2011 federal election campaign, newly released court documents show. The documents show exactly how widespread the investigation has become since it was first revealed that the election agency was looking into allegations of misleading phone calls in Guelph, Ont.

SurplusElect wrote:New report came out today by Canada's chief electoral officer about the last election.

"247 out of 308 riding's - 80% of the country - people complained about some kind of deceptive phone call. Either misdirection of voter station or late night opposite party harassment calls"

http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/ID/2362191169/

Seems elections Canada also knows of people that have key information but are not co-operating because they do not have to legally, and the lead Elections Canada investigator has no real legal powers - it's a joke.

Surely these "people with key information who are noy cooperating" are Conservatives or tied to the party as they are the one being investigated and were being investigated during and a few nights before the federal election about robocalls. That is in direct conflict with the governments statements that they are fully cooperating with Elections Canada.

Repressed vote election majority. Stinky beyond stink.

On Thursday, Judge Richard Mosley ruled that electoral fraud took place not just in the six ridings named in the case, but across the country. He also found that whoever committed the fraud had access to the Conservative Party's CIMS database, an exhaustive list of information on voters that includes names, phone numbers and voting preference.

The Council of Canadians is calling on the Conservative Party to make a list of everyone who had access to its electoral database during the last federal election and turn the information over to the RCMP and the commissioner of elections. "Anything less at this point would be a coverup,"

Jean-Pierre Kingsley, who ran Elections Canada for 17 years, said in an interview that the court's finding of fraud is extremely serious. "It behooves us to find out what happened. We cannot be still," he said

SurplusElect wrote:Indeed.

- CPC database, calling non CPC voters, telling them to go to the wrong polling stations across Canada.