From: grmerrick@shaw.ca   
      
   On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 08:48:23 -0700 (PDT), brewnoser2@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   >   
   >Stateside or in Canada, Conservatives have cheated to win one election after   
   another.  The days of their 'robocalls' are not over.  They have invented   
   other ways to abuse our election system.   
   >   
   >It's one thing to have RCMP investigations after the fact . . .  it's another   
   to keep these cheating losers the hell out of our governments.   
   >   
   >How Jason Kenney won his seat as Premier in Alberta:   
   >___________________________   
   >October 4, 2019   
   >   
   >   
   >Irregular votes, panicked moves, kiosks   
   >   
   >It was fall of 2017. Jason Kenney, former prime minister Stephen Harper's   
   chief lieutenant, and Brian Jean, who had led Alberta's recently dissolved   
   Wildrose Party, were vying to lead the newly created United Conservative   
   Party. On the second day of the    
   three-day leadership vote, a panicked call came from Kenney's campaign in   
   Calgary ordering his team in Edmonton to shut down a voting kiosk they had set   
   up in an empty storefront in a strip mall.   
   >   
   >The location on Ellerslie Road quickly emptied. By the next day, volunteers   
   huddled in a private home in southeast Edmonton, where one insider alleges   
   they cast votes from their mobile devices using PINs collected from registered   
   voters.   
   >   
   >While Kenney's team worked in that Edmonton home, the online dashboard used   
   by Jean's campaign to track the number of votes coming in had gone dark. The   
   UCP was no longer feeding the campaign updated stats on how many members had   
   voted and which PIN had    
   been used.   
   >   
   >By the time Jean's dashboard fired back up, the number of ballots cast had   
   skyrocketed. Ultimately, Jean lost the race by 30 percentage points and Kenney   
   went on to oust Rachel Notley's NDP in a provincial election.   
   >   
   >A CBC News investigation lifts the veil on what happened inside voting kiosks   
   set up by the Kenney campaign. It’s part of a larger story about allegations   
   of wrongdoing by the team behind Alberta’s current premier that one longtime   
   conservative    
   operative says is the focus of an ongoing RCMP investigation and an expert   
   says undermines the credibility of Canada’s democratic system.   
   >   
   >The Kenney campaign is also accused of using fraudulent emails to cast   
   ballots and of collaborating with another leadership contender who attacked   
   Jean in a “kamikaze” campaign.   
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   >   
   >He says in terms of Kenney's campaign, the RCMP seemed specifically   
   interested in people in Calgary and Edmonton — especially Edmonton — who   
   mass-purchased memberships "as it relates to voter fraud."   
   >   
   >Kenney won the leadership vote with 61.2 per cent of the vote, besting Jean   
   by 30 percentage points. Earlier this year, he led the UCP to victory over the   
   incumbent NDP and became Alberta's 18th premier.   
   >   
   >The RCMP, which has been tight-lipped on the status and focus of its   
   investigation, will only say it continues to investigate allegations of fraud   
   as it relates to the 2017 UCP leadership race. No charges have been laid.   
   >   
   >The whole story:   
   >https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/inside-jason-kenney   
      
   Puzzle.. Why did Albertans vote this creep in?   
      
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