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GENISM
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 Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject: Vancouver South recount |
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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/briti.....ml?ref=rss
"When electoral officials validated the results on Wednesday, the difference between the two leading candidates was officially 33 votes, less than one one-thousandth of the 42,076 ballots cast, an Elections Canada news release said Thursday.
But Wednesday's validated results give Dosanjh 16,101 ballots to Young's 16,068. Elections Canada did not explain the change."
I live in this riding...I was so frustrated with victory being so close the other night and even more frustrated to see how close the race really was. I hope Dosanjh loses the recount...man I dont want to be represented by this former-NDP turned Liberal. |
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Craig
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, that would have been HUGE. It is still pretty encouraging to have almost knocked off a big hitter in an urban riding. |
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Mac
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Location: John Baird's riding...
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Craig wrote: | | Yeah, that would have been HUGE. It is still pretty encouraging to have almost knocked off a big hitter in an urban riding. |
Particularly Dosanjh since he's like a bad penny coated with teflon.
Glen Clark got run out of office for being dirty but Dosanjh slid in as premier and nothing stuck to him. Luckily, the NDP got turfed from office but look who shows up as a Fed-Liberal! Then in the Grewal affair, Dosanjh was stick-handling the deal but Grewal takes the fall. Go figure!
Let's hope the recount works out well, so to speak.
-Mac |
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beaver
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Helping out a bit with the Vancouver South campaign, I was really thrilled when I heard this. I still don't understand how Elections Canada could have made the mistake on election day which showed Dosanjh leading by 700 votes. Anyway... 33 votes... the Liberals must be shaking. Hoping and praying about the recount results! |
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| More importantly, he was trailing all nite and pulled out a win at the end. So how is it that those unofficial results showed him winning by almost 780 votes, but the official count only by 33 votes? Something stinks here... |
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beaver
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Blue Meanie wrote: | | More importantly, he was trailing all nite and pulled out a win at the end. So how is it that those unofficial results showed him winning by almost 780 votes, but the official count only by 33 votes? Something stinks here... |
Yea... that's puzzling me too |
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cosmostein
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:24 am Post subject: |
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Wasn't it Ujjal Dosanjh who said on the night of the election that the Liberals would vote against anything Harper put forward in the next Parliament?
If that is the case I have no issue having him in the Liberal caucus as everytime the Liberals obstain or continue to drag their feet I would want that soundbyte played over and over again |
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beaver
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Indo-Canadian newspaper is reporting irregularities at the polling stations:
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Who Won Vancouver-South On Tuesday?
By R. Paul Dhillon
VANCOUVER – So who really won on Tuesday night in the hotly contested riding of Vancouver South, where Conservative challenger Wai Young put up a valiant effort of eating up majority of the Asian and ethnic vote but ended up losing to Liberal turncoat Ujjal Dosanjh by 779 votes.
Well, it turns out that Elections Canada and many of their employees were basically incompetent and possibly negligent in doing proper counting of votes on Tuesday as only 33 votes actually separate Dosanjh and Young, who did a bang-up job of delivering majority of the Asian vote as well as ethnic and mainstream vote. The new figures have put the riding automatically under a judicial recount, which means that every vote in the riding will be counted again by election officials.
The LINK has also learned that there were many irregularities in voting in the riding with one particular poll – which had the maximum of 500 votes to be cast, but allegedly had a final count of more than 900 votes with more than 800 allegedly credited to the Liberal candidate. Election Canada’s Indo-Canadian workers are also being accused of bias and improper conduct at the polls.
One incident involved an elderly Indo-Canadian woman who asked for some help with the ballot but the Indo-Canadian woman helping her pointed her to only one of the candidates, which upset the voter who sought to know all of the candidates before putting her check on the one she wanted to vote for. She complained and another Indo-Canadian worker refused to let her vote. She talked to the officials of the party she wanted to vote for who lobbied to get her to revote.
“From day one of the election, I told voters in Vancouver South that every vote counts - so I will be waiting, along with each person who voted in Vancouver South – to see what the judicial recount will reveal” said Young, when she heard the Elections Canada’s validated results.
Young and her Campaign Team were notified by Elections Canada Thursday morning that an automatic judicial recount will be conducted for the Vancouver South Electoral District. Elections Canada released their validated results Thursday which identified that only 33 votes separate the incumbent and her from winning the riding.
With more than 250 spoiled ballots, which very well could have been for Young, there could be an entirely new outcome in Vancouver-South that might actually end on a sour note for Dosanjh! |
http://www.thelinkpaper.ca/ind.....amp;ucat=1
It ain't over yet. |
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Mac
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:49 am Post subject: |
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| beaver wrote: | | It ain't over yet. |
Heh... Let's hope Dosanjh gets his comeuppance!!
-Mac |
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cosmostein
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:56 am Post subject: |
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| beaver wrote: |
It ain't over yet. |
Here's hopin' |
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The CBC is reporting that a recount has been ordered in Keith Martin's Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca riding. I think Vancouver South has a better change to go CPC, but could you imagine if two ridings flipped?
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/briti.....sanjh.html |
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SFrank85
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Something seems strange about this riding of Vancouver-South. I wonder if there is such a problem with the re-count, maybe they will have to re-do the vote? |
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Riley W
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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| If this is so fishy there should be a revote for the riding. |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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When I went to bed on election night, Wai Young was up by 100 or so votes. She had been leading for most of the night. When I woke up the next morning, the unoffcial result was that Dosanjh won by 779 votes.  An 800 vote swing was very strange. When the official results were released and the margin was only 33 votes. I wonder what happened to the 746 votes? Then when local newspapers are reporting irregularities, you really wonder.
| Quote: | As results came in on election night, Dosanjh trailed Conservative candidate Wai Young through the evening, but he overtook her at the end. Those initial, unofficial results showed the former B.C. premier taking 16,774 votes to Young's 15,995 after all 184 polls had reported.
But Wednesday's validated results give Dosanjh 16,101 ballots to Young's 16,068. Elections Canada did not explain the change. |
Why is Elections Canada so quiet on the matter? Somehown Dosanjh's votes were overcounted by 643 votes!!! Wai Young's tally was overcounted by 73. Statisically, this should not happen. One would think that a prerequisite of working for Elections Canada is being able to count. Something smells in Vancouver South. |
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