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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.

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_...