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Chief Electoral Officer says robocalls are 'absolutely outrageous' [View all]
The Chief Electoral Officer could not have been clearer.
Automated calls telling voters that their polling stations had been changed never came from his agency.
Elections Canada does not keep or distribute phone numbers and never calls people, full stop.
The Chief Electoral Officer, Marc Mayrand, told the House of Commons Procedure and House Affairs Committee that he considers these fraudulent calls to be a very serious matter.
"It is absolutely outrageous to falsely represent oneself as Elections Canada," Mayrand told the committee. "That is unacceptable in a modern democracy."
Automated calls telling voters that their polling stations had been changed never came from his agency.
Elections Canada does not keep or distribute phone numbers and never calls people, full stop.
The Chief Electoral Officer, Marc Mayrand, told the House of Commons Procedure and House Affairs Committee that he considers these fraudulent calls to be a very serious matter.
"It is absolutely outrageous to falsely represent oneself as Elections Canada," Mayrand told the committee. "That is unacceptable in a modern democracy."
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/karl-nerenberg/2012/03/hill-dispatches-chief-electoral-officer-says-robocalls-are-abs
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