From: brewnoser2@gmail.com   
      
   Look at the sequence of events:   
      
   May 26, 2015:   
   BREAKING NEWS: After vote recount, Dr. Brian Day and Dr. Alan Ruddiman tied   
   for Doctors of B.C. election; 1st-ever run-off vote announced   
      
   HERE'S MY ORIGINAL STORY ABOUT THE ELECTION:   
      
   BY PAMELA FAYERMAN   
      
   In a stunning election decided by just a single vote,    
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   private medicine pioneer Dr. Brian Day got the nod Tuesday as the 2015/15   
   president-elect of Doctors of BC.   
      
   Dr. Alan Ruddiman, a rural family physician in Oliver, garnered just one vote   
   less - 945 - and Dr. Lloyd Oppel, an emergency medicine physician at the   
   University of BC Hospital, got 285 votes.   
      
   Day will become president of the doctors' advocacy organization in 2016/17.    
   He will succeed Dr. Charles Webb, a Vancouver family doctor, who will take   
   over as president of the organization on June 6 when Dr. Bill Cavers finishes   
   his one year term.   
      
   Day entered the contest after the other two contenders had already declared   
   their candidacies and immediately stirred things up telling doctors that a   
   vote for him was a vote for patient choice and competition in health care.   
      
   He said votes for him would be about challenging the status quo in which the   
   BC government forbids doctors from billing patients for care provided in the   
   private sector.   
      
   Day, an orthopaedic surgeon and co-owner of the Cambie Surgery Centre, is a   
   former president (2007/2008) of the Canadian Medical Association.    
      
   Day is suing the BC government over the private medicine issue.  But his   
   six-year old lawsuit has been twice delayed and is not scheduled in the BC   
   Supreme Court until the end of the year, at the earliest.   
      
   The fact that the case is expected to last seven months means Day will be   
   leading the organization at the very same time that he's in court against the   
   government - a scenario which could present problems since Doctors of BC   
   interacts with government    
   frequently.   In his last post on Twitter, just before the results were   
   announced, the new-to-Twitter Day declared: "The government does not own our   
   bodies."   
      
   Day's lawsuit against the government contends that patients have a   
   constitutional right to access private clinics if their health is suffering   
   because they are waiting too long for care in the public health system.   
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   JUNE 1:   
      
   UPDATE TO READERS: ALLAN SECKEL, CEO OF DOCTORS OF BC, HAS RELEASED THIS   
   MESSAGE:   
      
       A verification of the results in the vote for President-Elect has been   
   completed.   
      
        As part of the process, Everyone Counts Canada found - independently of   
   anyone at the Doctors of BC - that one vote that ought to have been counted,   
   was in fact not counted.   
      
       With that vote included, the result is a tie between Dr Brian Day and Dr   
   Alan Ruddiman.   
      
        As Chief Electoral officer, it is my responsibility to ensure an   
   impartial outcome and a fair process.  I have concluded that a run-off vote   
   will be held between the two candidates.  It will start June 5th and conclude   
   June 18th.   All members in    
   good standing who are eligible to vote under the bylaws will be eligible to   
   vote in the runoff. "   
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   Jun 19 2015 - 09:01   
      
   2015-2016  President-Elect Runoff Election Results   
      
   News   
      
   Statement from Allan Seckel, QC   
   Chief Electoral Officer and CEO, Doctors of BC   
      
   "Voting in the Doctors of BC President-Elect run-off election concluded at   
   midnight on June 18th. Dr Alan Ruddiman was elected into the position with a   
   total of 3,065 votes.  Dr Brian Day received a total of 2,462 votes.   
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   Approximately 11,000 members were eligible to vote.  A total of 5,527 votes   
   were cast representing approximately 50% of the Doctors of BC membership   
   eligible to vote.   
      
   Doctors of BC thanks both candidates for their desire to lead our Association,   
   and for their dedication to the profession."   
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   Wow.  Can you say 'rigged first vote'?     
      
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