So it turns out that crack investigative Journalists who broke this "greatest election fraud in history" story; "Robocalls probe centres on disposable 'burner' cellphone linked to black ops in Guelph riding." May have jumped the gun.
As it turns out, The Elections Canada Chief Electoral Officer said "Immediately following the 2011 general election, the Commissioner of Canada Elections deployed resources to investigate complaints of fraudulent or improper calls. Since then, over 700 Canadians from across the country have informed us of specific circumstances where they believe similar wrongdoing took place". This is a far cry from the media hyped number of 31000 which was solicited by The Globe and Mail, and Lead now's website.
Apparently even 700 calls is too many for some people like CBC's Kady O'Malley, but at the same time for others it is smack in the middle of the average.
I did a little quick math after this broke this afternoon, where I calculated the difference and the results.
31000 (Lead now is now claiming over 41000) - 700 = 30300 ROBOSPAM.
700 robocalls at lets say .05 cents (double the bulk as I couldn't find an actual cost, except for HERE. Racknine's site did not seem to have the available info HERE.) would run $35. Not 3500, just THIRTY FIVE DOLLARS. Even if it was $100 this could EASILY have been a rogue individual, who could have done it for ANY reason! As opposed to claims of the "Anonymous" source by Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher in this article; "Unlikely a Tory staffer could have acted alone in Pierre Poutine scam: source"
That's what broke today.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI'd just like to point out that you're seriously misinformed.
When they say 700 complaints, they mean 700 SPECIFIC complaints which they are investigating. The fact that you think 30300 Canadians would spam the elections office shows how little confidence you have in our country.
Cheers!
And since your so well informed, what were the 700 calls specifically about? You will note that no one has said they are specifically "robocalls", but I gave the benefit of the doubt for them to be so. I would imagine of the 700 they are investigation live calls to.
ReplyDeleteMy lack of trust is for Lefties and activists, which made concerted effort to spam Election Canada because THEY had no confidence in our Country or Electoral process in favour of a potential "do over".