However, I'm surprised none of you refer to the election interference/voter suppression tactics used to disrupt recent "safe" byelections lost by the Liberals ...
The Longest Ballot Committee put dozens of spurious candidates on the St. Paul's ballot, diluting it by enough that that election was decided by mere hundreds of votes.
The exact same tactic was used in LaSalle-Émard-Verdun, with an even smaller loss margin:
Painfully, few news sources make any mention at all of such an outlier aspect re: these election results, misleadingly choosing a narrative of "OOOooooh, look—Liberals are losing their strongholds so voters must be VERY upset with them!!!!".
If voters were truly upset enough for Liberals to lose these elections, such "soft" voter suppression tactics would not have been deployed.
(In recent US elections, another "soft" voter suppression tactic was running pretend candidates—i.e. real humans, but not true candidates—with the same last name as targeted Democrats. Voters who were not informed enough to know a candidate's first name would then have to guess which candidate to put their checkmark beside, or would perhaps just tick the first intended/recognized last name they saw.)
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However, I'm surprised none of you refer to the election interference/voter suppression tactics used to disrupt recent "safe" byelections lost by the Liberals ...
The Longest Ballot Committee put dozens of spurious candidates on the St. Paul's ballot, diluting it by enough that that election was decided by mere hundreds of votes.
The exact same tactic was used in LaSalle-Émard-Verdun, with an even smaller loss margin:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/elections-canada-candidacy-rules-longest-ballot-1.7325950
Painfully, few news sources make any mention at all of such an outlier aspect re: these election results, misleadingly choosing a narrative of "OOOooooh, look—Liberals are losing their strongholds so voters must be VERY upset with them!!!!".
If voters were truly upset enough for Liberals to lose these elections, such "soft" voter suppression tactics would not have been deployed.
(In recent US elections, another "soft" voter suppression tactic was running pretend candidates—i.e. real humans, but not true candidates—with the same last name as targeted Democrats. Voters who were not informed enough to know a candidate's first name would then have to guess which candidate to put their checkmark beside, or would perhaps just tick the first intended/recognized last name they saw.)
LBC on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_Ballot_Committee?wprov=sfti1