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Re:How the Harper Government Committed a Knowledge Massacre by rcfox on Saturday January 04, 2014 @10:41AM (#7011386)
The article mentions reports of misleading calls in 247 ridings. Anyway, parties receive public funding based on the number of votes they receive, so any amount of election fraud is essentially stealing funding from another party.
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Re:How the Harper Government Committed a Knowledge Massacre by cryptoz on Saturday January 04, 2014 @10:43AM (#7011398)
> Anyway, parties receive public funding based on the number of votes they receive

This is false. The Conservatives put a stop to the per-party funding based on votes a long time ago.

> , so any amount of election fraud is essentially stealing funding from another party.

...but this was true when the elections happened. That's extra evil, I hadn't thought of it that way.

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Re:How the Harper Government Committed a Knowledge Massacre by rcfox on Saturday January 04, 2014 @10:51AM (#7011427)
Apparently, it's gradually being reduced until next year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_political_financing_in_...
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