Before I conflate this with an actual federal election, as far as I know, only liberal party members (the ones that weren't DQ'd) were allowed to vote on this.
So it seems to me like those disqualifications were in specific districts to prevent people from voting in any way but exactly what they wanted to happen.
ie: those they knew were going to vote for Carney got to vote. And those who were going to vote for someone else got just enough DQs to make carney the easy win.
Sounds like this is more like a vote in Congress, where the whips know how many are going to vote which way and twist arms enough to get the result.
But Canada does have a big problem with elections and that is until covid-era they had real elections, with hand-counted paper in-person votes. Now they have unverifiable elections with lots of mail-in.
Canada hasn't built up the secret checks and balances of competing riggers like America has (election fraud for at least 60 years), so they're likely to just go completely off the rails.
We've had mail-in ballots for a long time. BUT! The scrutiny to get one is just the same as an in-person vote. Wide-scale mail-in fraud would be very costly both in time and money. Even then? You'd have to do it in specific ridings where it might make a difference: there's no large-scale ballots for Prime Minister or Governor, for example.
So until lately, Canada's elections have been pretty solid. This upcoming one could be like the USA 2020: rigged from the start.
Hmm mail in is not as large as I thought... from 1.5% (2019) to 4.0% (2021).
I must have read that they were prepared for 5 million ballots... but they only got 500k.
You have to send in a photocopy of your ID so it would be hard to add fake voters, but there doesn't seem to be much protection from your vote being changed - probably because historically it hasn't been enough to be a concern.
Before I conflate this with an actual federal election, as far as I know, only liberal party members (the ones that weren't DQ'd) were allowed to vote on this.
So it seems to me like those disqualifications were in specific districts to prevent people from voting in any way but exactly what they wanted to happen.
ie: those they knew were going to vote for Carney got to vote. And those who were going to vote for someone else got just enough DQs to make carney the easy win.
Sounds like this is more like a vote in Congress, where the whips know how many are going to vote which way and twist arms enough to get the result.
But Canada does have a big problem with elections and that is until covid-era they had real elections, with hand-counted paper in-person votes. Now they have unverifiable elections with lots of mail-in.
Canada hasn't built up the secret checks and balances of competing riggers like America has (election fraud for at least 60 years), so they're likely to just go completely off the rails.
We've had mail-in ballots for a long time. BUT! The scrutiny to get one is just the same as an in-person vote. Wide-scale mail-in fraud would be very costly both in time and money. Even then? You'd have to do it in specific ridings where it might make a difference: there's no large-scale ballots for Prime Minister or Governor, for example.
So until lately, Canada's elections have been pretty solid. This upcoming one could be like the USA 2020: rigged from the start.
Hmm mail in is not as large as I thought... from 1.5% (2019) to 4.0% (2021).
I must have read that they were prepared for 5 million ballots... but they only got 500k.
You have to send in a photocopy of your ID so it would be hard to add fake voters, but there doesn't seem to be much protection from your vote being changed - probably because historically it hasn't been enough to be a concern.
I saw some vote totals for local riding associations in the paper this morning.
It wouldn't have been hard to rig.
We're literally talking about Carney winning local association votes with 100 ballots.