While I do think there was fishy stuff during that election, him cheating would be the least odd thing about it. Canada was going through a giant heat wave that pushed through september that year (we do our federal ones 2 months before the american one), with the west coast in particular averaging 22C for the month. Not only were places ill-equipped to handle the massive amount of people without the weather, but the added part of people feinting in the parking lots while waiting added a bit of chaos to it. When I went to vote I had 4 cases of water in the back of my corolla and people were literally trying to hand me $20s for some of it because it was that bad outside.
While I do think there was fishy stuff during that election, him cheating would be the least odd thing about it. Canada was going through a giant heat wave that pushed through september that year (we do our federal ones 2 months before the american one), with the west coast in particular averaging 22C for the month. Not only were places ill-equipped to handle the massive amount of people without the weather, but the added part of people feinting in the parking lots while waiting added a bit of chaos to it. When I went to vote I had 4 cases of water in the back of my corolla and people were literally trying to hand me $20s for some of it because it was that bad outside.