Liberals "win" riding by 1 vote after Election Canada refuses to correct mistake
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The election result in the riding of Terrebonne in Quebec is insane. Elections Canada screwed up and left a ballot in a woman's mailbox, and they refuse to count it. What's one vote between friends when the Liberals are ahead?
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The way the election result has been handled in the riding of Terrebonne in Quebec is absolutely insane.
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We had, on election night, the Liberals winning the election, but after special ballots were counted, it swung over to the Bloc Québécois.
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And then a judicial recount was undertaken because the result was very close.
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The Bloc Québécois had only won by 44 votes, and after the judicial recount, the Liberals ended up winning by a single vote.
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But then, there was another ballot found that verifiably shows someone was trying to vote for the Bloc Québécois,
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and Elections Canada screwed up and gave them the wrong address to mail the ballot into,
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and they're not going to count that one, because apparently, what's one vote between friends when the Liberals are ahead?
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So, this is how Elections Canada is currently handling the situation.
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Elections Canada says the results of a recount in the federal riding of Terrebonne in this final,
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despite a misprint that led to one special ballot being returned to sender.
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Now, I'm just going to read an excerpt from the article here.
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Despite the error and questions about the possibility of another recount or a by-election,
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Elections Canada spokesperson Matthew McKenna said the result of the recount is final.
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The Canadian Elections Act does not explicitly provide for the appeal of a judicial recount,
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and Elections Canada is unaware of any appeals brought to a court following a recount.
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So, just because he doesn't know that there's ever been something like that before,
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the act doesn't explicitly say we have to do it.
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So, who cares that this is basically just a subversion of democracy?
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But because Elections Canada misprinted the wrong automatic returning address to the ballot,
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that they would have stuck in their mailbox and hoped it was going to get into Elections Canada,
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it bounced back, came back to them, and they're like,
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I was trying to vote bloc, and you guys basically didn't let me.
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But I think at this point, Elections Canada, if they're pro-liberal,
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Well, it just so happens that we can ignore this ballot and allow our favorite party to win.
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Do I absolutely know it's their favorite party?
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But, guys, the evidence is kind of there to suggest that they might want the Liberals to win,
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So we see right here from the CBC news headline,
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Liberals won Terrebonne-Quebec riding by one vote,
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And we can see here that the address that they had provided onto the ballots were not the right one.
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It's all still signed and sealed, and they can verify that this was the wrong address for Elections Canada
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But, again, we're not going to do anything about it.
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By the way, I'm not even saying that they should just count this one lady's vote.
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How do we know how many people may have sent in a vote, and it was the wrong address,
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the thing bounced back, but they just didn't complain about it,
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and it could have caused the Liberal to win or the Bloc to win?
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You have a by-election in a scenario like this when you really don't know with a gun-to-your-head certainty who won,
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because at the end of the day, the riding deserves to be represented by the person that the population wanted.
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In this case, we're just going to have someone represented, just one of the two parties, flip a coin,
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That's not how our first-past-the-post system works.
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You don't just keep counting and stop counting after your favorite party wins,
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and then when the other person finds a ballot, they're like,
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well, there's no technical way of having an appeal.
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And I think the good thing is that Yves-Francois Blanchet,
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the leader of the Bloc Capicoat, is not taking this lying down,
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and I do believe that they will be appealing this in court,
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You're not just going to, you know, where are you going to go?
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Just kind of like weakly let the Liberals just take the riding,
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simply because elections can, they can't get their crap together,
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and they're too, you know, mentally lazy to figure out
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Well, the Act doesn't say we have to rectify it,
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There are people whose trust in the system is undermined.
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But I think when small issues like this come up,
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there are people incentivized to not take it too seriously
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if not taking it seriously helps the Liberals win.
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Yeah, we had 800 special ballots get lost in British Columbia,
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and all those ballots are from various different writings,
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and in the BC provincial elections, Elections BC,
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because they're not giving me a lot to work with here.
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Right now in Terribum, they're dragging their feet.
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because it gets Mark Carney closer to a majority government.
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how likely he is to want to go towards another election.
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This, in fact, is probably the number one draft pick scenario
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where you want to make sure you get the election right,
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getting 170 seats means they're only two away from a majority.
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And that maybe they can get a couple NDP'd across the floor
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And maybe no one wants to leave the NDP at that point
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because you're stronger together in your party.
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Bureaucratic incompetence in other departments in government
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all start calling for there to be an actual review
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because they're absolutely wrong on this issue.
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And any normal citizen knowing the details of a case like this
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does not think that the bureaucrats in Elections Canada are right.
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that they don't technically have to do anything
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who actually wants the results of the election to be accurate.
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Because if that vote can decide who's in government
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or if there's a by-election and the bloc might win,
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Kind of like the Laura Babcock kind of position.
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But again, these people only consider it democracy when they win.
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So this is a democratic outcome in their minds.
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But if it went to a by-election in the bloc one,
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because they believe that they represent the will of the people.
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it's because the will of the people was subverted,
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