Ok, so it seems that, if the "Twitterverse" is to believed, Elections Canada has found that "special" polling stations such as U of G are not sanctioned and therefore cannot occur in the future. Mainly because students were registering and voting at the same time. Thought you could register at a polling station?
So the Cons will "allow" the 700 votes to stand because they are great guys and all. And now they are "spinning" this as a problem with a sloppy EC official. And they are grinning ear to ear to be able to pin this fracas on Elections Canada.
Cons are at war with EC by the way because EC nailed the Cons for their "in and out" scam in 2006. The Cons consider this an "administrative dispute" much as they characterize contempt of Parliament as "Parliamentary bickering".
Apparently "Voting Mobs" can still place at advanced polls and on election day. But this does not take into account the students issue of not being on campus come election day. And how many of the 700 would have voted without the encouragement of the School?
This is NOT a student friendly decision. They are being discouraged from voting once again because students would typically not vote conservative. So the Harper strategy remains one of "vote suppression".
No word on charges re: the attempted ballot box snatching. Seeing as the 700 votes are being allowed to stand, this attempted theft of legitimate ballots is a federal offense worthy of some serious jail time in one of those nice new shiny conservative super jails. But will this occur? Not likely. And will this heinous offense stick to Teflon Stevie? Also not likely.
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