The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 28, 2025


Eby's NDP in trouble - New fraud evidence comes out about BC election!


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Surrey-Guilford rioting may need to be overturned because of a new affidavit from a Green Party candidate in the rioting, who claims that voting irregularities occurred in a lodge that is 80 metres away from the nearest polling station.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here.
00:00:03.360 Every time I think this election issue in the BC provincial rioting of Surrey-Guilford
00:00:08.820 is going to go quiet and we're not going to hear any more updates about it,
00:00:12.760 and maybe the issue just gets resolved quietly by the courts with no substantial change,
00:00:18.120 more revelations come out.
00:00:20.120 If you don't know what the story is about already,
00:00:23.140 there is this rioting in the BC provincial election
00:00:26.180 that the BC NDP's MLA candidate, Gary Begg, only won by 22 votes.
00:00:33.220 This rioting really matters
00:00:35.120 because the BC NDP only have a bare majority in the legislature with this seat.
00:00:41.520 They have 47 seats and you need exactly 47 seats in order to have a majority.
00:00:47.560 Even now, they don't technically have a majority
00:00:49.720 because they do have to put forward the Speaker of the legislature,
00:00:53.740 which means if they want to pass stuff with only their votes,
00:00:57.340 it's a very long and arduous process.
00:00:59.680 So even now, they're having to rely on the Greens.
00:01:02.320 If this Surrey-Guilford rioting gets overturned
00:01:05.360 and then the BC Conservatives pick it up in a by-election,
00:01:08.840 that would mean the NDP would fall into a very shaky minority government
00:01:13.340 that requires the Greens to help them pass everything.
00:01:16.920 And the problem is,
00:01:17.900 as much as you would think the NDP and the Greens get along on a lot of issues,
00:01:21.620 the issue is, as soon as they're having to negotiate with the Greens on everything,
00:01:26.380 things slow down a lot.
00:01:28.360 And even then, the Greens don't agree with the NDP on several major issues,
00:01:33.480 which means that this could throw the BC government into a complete stalemate
00:01:38.760 and may require a new election be held altogether.
00:01:42.560 So I'm going to take you through some of the new stuff that we know
00:01:46.200 coming out of Surrey-Guilford,
00:01:48.740 again, a rioting the BCNDP only won by 22 votes,
00:01:52.740 and more than 45 irregularities have already been found.
00:01:57.240 The most crazy stuff coming out of this one lodge, Argyle Lodge,
00:02:02.940 that seems to just be wall-to-wall with potential voter fraud.
00:02:07.940 Anyways, but before I get into it, guys,
00:02:10.180 if you want updates on this story and the other stories I cover on this channel,
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00:02:22.980 Anyways, here is BC Conservative leader John Rustad,
00:02:26.640 a clip from his recent press conference,
00:02:28.940 talking about a new revelation that came out of Surrey-Guilford from this Argyle Lodge,
00:02:34.080 that backs up the assertions that this rioting may need to be overturned
00:02:38.920 because of the sheer amount of irregularities that have currently been found.
00:02:43.560 So what we now have found with Surrey-Guilford is we now actually have a new affidavit
00:02:48.300 that has come forward from the Green Party candidate in that rioting,
00:02:52.920 who particularly on the Argyle Lodge has said this candidate went to the lodge,
00:02:59.660 talked to the people rioting there, wanted to get in and talk to the residents,
00:03:03.020 wanted to leave information about the party,
00:03:06.080 and the response was that the residents were elderly and incapable of voting.
00:03:12.980 And so they turned away the candidate from being able to go in and talk to those residents.
00:03:17.260 We now know from the other affidavits that those members in that lodge voted,
00:03:24.200 that they all voted by mail.
00:03:26.300 He's mentioning that all 21 of the residents of the Surrey-Guil Lodge voted,
00:03:32.460 and he said that they voted by mail,
00:03:34.080 which is a key detail if you don't know much about the story yet,
00:03:37.280 because this is a lodge that is 80 meters away from the closest polling location.
00:03:45.100 It would be very easy for the people who live there to go and vote in person themselves,
00:03:50.040 many of whom are perfectly capable of voting and even physically taking themselves to the polling station.
00:03:57.460 Others in the lodge are incapable of voting.
00:04:00.340 Legitimately, they are nonverbal.
00:04:03.820 They have many mental limitations and physical limitations from past drug abuse and their old age.
00:04:10.660 But somehow, 21, all 21 of the residents, did in fact vote.
00:04:16.200 The lodge, the person running that said Elections B.C. has been giving them the ballots by bulk every election.
00:04:23.800 Elections B.C. says, no, we don't do that.
00:04:26.980 There are serious irregularities that have happened during this election.
00:04:31.240 And most importantly, when we look at this and we'll be talking with people in other lodges,
00:04:36.240 we'll be finding other information, we'll hopefully be able to bring that forward in terms of affidavits as well.
00:04:41.420 Now, I actually, it makes me very, very angry to think that our vulnerable citizens, our seniors,
00:04:48.300 have been taken, and potentially have been taken advantage of in terms of how the election process has worked in the province of British Columbia.
00:04:55.840 Now, I've had on the B.C. Conservative candidate from Surrey Guilford, Hanvir Rondawa.
00:05:01.100 I'm not sure if we can release the interview yet because he is currently the one who has brought the petition to the court
00:05:07.760 in order to have the election results of Surrey Guilford thrown out and have a new by-election called.
00:05:14.080 Now, something that's really hinky that's been going on that Rust had talked about in this long press conference,
00:05:20.220 which I will be linking in the description below and pinned at the top of the comments
00:05:24.880 if you want to watch the full two-hour thing in full, is that B.C. Elections was initially investigating.
00:05:31.720 There's been multiple affidavits out showing that this is a serious issue,
00:05:35.620 showing that there are provable irregularities.
00:05:38.540 One thing that Hanvir told me was the lodge managers,
00:05:42.320 one of which has maxed out donations to the B.C. NDP in the past,
00:05:46.720 they control the identification cards of all of the residents.
00:05:51.100 Now, that's really sketchy because one of the things that you need to be able to send and mail in ballot
00:05:57.120 is your ID photocopied.
00:05:59.900 Who do you think the one in the lodge is who has access to their IDs and the photocopier?
00:06:05.500 I already mentioned the first one, and I'm pretty sure if there's somebody who has a printer and a scanner in that lodge,
00:06:12.400 it ain't going to be a resident. It's going to be an owner or a manager.
00:06:16.340 This is sketchy as heck, and I think that the B.C. Conservatives are right to be pushing on this.
00:06:23.040 The Green Party candidate, as he said in that clip,
00:06:26.840 went to the lodge wanting to talk to residents,
00:06:29.800 and the manager came out, the B.C. NDP donating manager came out,
00:06:34.100 and said, people here are seniors, they're older,
00:06:37.040 they have physical and mental limitations,
00:06:38.700 many of them are recovering from addictions,
00:06:40.620 they can't vote.
00:06:41.480 Yet 21 of them, all 21 of them, ended up voting.
00:06:46.180 Now, in the press conference, you can watch this if you want to see it in full.
00:06:50.820 When John Rustad opened up the press conference to questions from the media,
00:06:56.000 there was this absolutely weaselly question from one of the reporters saying,
00:07:01.120 well, in one of the affidavits you had from a lodge resident,
00:07:05.320 they said that they voted for your party.
00:07:07.640 Okay, one affidavit said that they voted for the B.C. Conservatives.
00:07:13.020 One, how do I know that they actually voted Conservative,
00:07:15.940 or a lodge manager said, oh, we're voting, who are you going to vote for?
00:07:19.020 Conservative, oh, okay, and then they just marked down NDP and sent it in.
00:07:22.560 And by the way, their testimony doesn't matter.
00:07:25.360 That's not how election court cases go.
00:07:28.300 You simply look at the margin that somebody won by,
00:07:32.140 you look at the amount of very sketchy ballots,
00:07:34.700 and then if especially the margin is made up more than double of the irregularities,
00:07:40.960 you've got to throw it out.
00:07:42.260 You can't just say, well, I think these people would have voted this way or that way,
00:07:45.900 or no irregularity could ever overturn an election,
00:07:49.160 because in some universe we could say it actually helps the party that,
00:07:52.980 you know, it actually helps the other party,
00:07:55.760 or it would actually hurt the party that lost if we took these votes out.
00:07:59.720 You don't play mind games, you simply see that a lot of people have double voted,
00:08:04.920 or people who are incapacitated voted,
00:08:07.120 and say, obviously, we cannot trust this election result anymore.
00:08:11.080 So yeah, it seems like the lodge managers here are complete liars.
00:08:14.980 BC Elections has had to call them liars,
00:08:17.240 because they said, oh, it's been for three decades every time an election rolls around,
00:08:21.360 they just send us a bulk order of ballots for all of our people.
00:08:24.120 That's not how that works.
00:08:26.360 You have to request them, and by the way,
00:08:28.480 it is against the law to help more than one person prepare their ballot
00:08:32.340 if you're sending them in by mail.
00:08:34.420 You don't just get to sit there and stamp and scan people's information
00:08:38.840 in order to send in ballots for dozens and dozens of people.
00:08:43.540 That's no longer somebody voting,
00:08:45.440 that is you manufacturing votes by doing all the work for people
00:08:48.780 who would have not otherwise voted,
00:08:50.580 or may have not had the capacity to vote,
00:08:52.700 or may have not selected the person that you wanted them to select
00:08:55.760 if they ended up curing their own ballot.
00:08:59.400 But yeah, this is obviously just insane.
00:09:03.660 It's insane that BC Elections was investigating and then decided to say,
00:09:07.320 no, we're not investigating anymore because, you know,
00:09:10.700 there's an ongoing court case.
00:09:12.560 Why would an ongoing court case mean you stop investigating?
00:09:15.700 Do the police stop investigating once a criminal gets charged with a crime
00:09:20.320 and they had to wait until the court case is over before they solve the rest of the murder mystery?
00:09:24.740 That's obviously not what's going on here.
00:09:27.340 What seems like is BC Elections is using the excuse that technically,
00:09:31.500 because they're the defendant,
00:09:32.880 they have no duty to help the complainant actually win their case.
00:09:38.420 BC Elections is not the actual defendant here.
00:09:41.420 They are not the respondent.
00:09:42.680 They are simply the ones who hold the election records that Hanver Andawa,
00:09:47.620 the BC Conservative candidate, is challenging.
00:09:50.080 It's not their job to defend whatever the result was.
00:09:54.060 Their job is to look at the evidence,
00:09:56.740 and as the people, they must be the ones,
00:09:59.200 they have to be sued because they're the ones who hold the records.
00:10:02.000 Hanver is not saying, you guys have done poorly.
00:10:04.140 He's just saying, I think your results are not what they should be,
00:10:07.280 so we need to resolve this.
00:10:08.340 But BC Elections is acting like this is an adversarial court case,
00:10:11.980 and they are under no obligation now to do any investigating
00:10:15.460 because Hanver is suing them,
00:10:16.980 so he should have to investigate as some random guy
00:10:20.040 who doesn't have data and records that would enable him to investigate properly.
00:10:25.500 It's a complete clown show.
00:10:28.080 The BC NDP, you can tell that they are absolutely terrified of this court case
00:10:34.100 because they will not talk about it at all.
00:10:37.000 After day one of Rustad rolling out this information,
00:10:40.760 them calling an election denier,
00:10:42.460 they haven't said a word.
00:10:44.200 They haven't said a peep.
00:10:46.400 The legislature is back in session.
00:10:48.460 They have no reason to be quiet,
00:10:51.100 but they're very quiet now
00:10:52.360 because now they realize this could blow them up
00:10:55.160 because, again, the BC NDP have managed the province terribly
00:10:59.480 since they won their re-election.
00:11:01.620 They had to cancel the $1,000 fake grocery rebates
00:11:04.980 they promised in the election.
00:11:06.420 They've been on basically a four-month vacation.
00:11:08.880 They've been absolutely screwing it on the tariff war issue,
00:11:13.100 them basically saying,
00:11:14.220 well, who cares if there's fentanyl all over our province?
00:11:18.120 Orange man bad. 0.78
00:11:19.880 They are out to lunch.
00:11:21.060 ER closures are everywhere.
00:11:22.440 These guys couldn't win an election for dog catcher at this point,
00:11:26.900 and that's why they can't have a by-election
00:11:29.180 where Gary Begg would have to face off against Hanvir Randhawa again
00:11:32.680 because they would get destroyed.
00:11:34.720 And so hopefully they do win this case.
00:11:36.620 I'm going to keep you guys in the loop on what's going on.
00:11:39.600 But that basically should be it for me today, guys.
00:11:42.960 Life update.
00:11:43.800 I am actually going to Nanaimo tomorrow.
00:11:47.040 Actually, technically, I mean today,
00:11:49.420 I am filming this before I end up getting on a plane
00:11:52.500 because that would suck to have to film a video right before I leave,
00:11:57.820 so I'm doing it the night before.
00:11:59.840 Random information you don't need to know.
00:12:01.460 But I'm going to the BC Conservative AGM in Nanaimo,
00:12:04.340 so I might be able to sit down with Rustad and some other MLAs
00:12:07.120 and ask them their opinion on the story
00:12:08.860 as well as do some other provincial work out there.
00:12:11.520 And, yeah, just I want to give you guys a reminder.
00:12:14.900 Hey, if you live in the riding of Willowdale, Ontario,
00:12:18.040 for the federal side of things,
00:12:20.460 please consider buying a Conservative Party membership, federal,
00:12:24.500 and voting for Jeff Yang in the upcoming nomination.
00:12:27.540 He's a very good candidate.
00:12:29.320 Whatever riding you live in in Canada,
00:12:31.900 if you currently don't have an incumbent Conservative,
00:12:35.200 make sure you have a Conservative Party membership
00:12:37.820 in case you want to be able to vote in the nominations.
00:12:40.640 It's always good because nominations effectively determine
00:12:44.400 everyone in Parliament
00:12:45.420 because everyone who gets into Parliament
00:12:47.380 had to go through a nomination.
00:12:49.720 I think the Conservatives federally are going to win
00:12:51.920 this next federal election,
00:12:53.460 but let's make sure when they do win,
00:12:55.840 they are stocked up with very good MPs,
00:12:58.280 not random red Tories who knew they couldn't win
00:13:00.900 as a Liberal this election cycle,
00:13:02.640 so instead they ran as Conservatives.
00:13:05.340 So that's it for me, guys.
00:13:07.120 See you all later.