GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!

[james_davis_nicoll]

is a line Mark Slackmeyer once delivered about an unrelated matter. In Canadian news:

More candidates are coming forward with reports of calls that tried to send voters to the wrong polling stations last election day.

The House of Commons returns Monday from a week-long break as the furor grows over harassing and fraudulent calls on May 2, 2011.

Comments

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

Not that I would call for the election to be declared illegal and the results null, and then have them hold a new one.

Because, you see, I dislike the result of the election and am therefore biased. And if you like who won, you are clearly biased.

Could we have someone who doesn't care to step forward and ask that the election be held again?

[(Anonymous)]

Thing is, a new election doesn't solve this problem. The same dirty tricks will be used; new dirty tricks will be used if the press is watching for the old ones carefully enough.

The required solution is not hold a new election; the required solution is to send a great many people to jail for the length of their days and *then* hold new election, and that presents certain severe logistical difficulties.

-- Graydon, who really really wants malfeasance back on the books.

We have a furor. Do I hear kerfuffle?

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Oh please. OH PLEASE.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

We see here something which has come up in other political scandals. The surprising thing is not the fact of cheating. It is the level of incompetence shown by the cheaters.

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

We had a doozy in Oz a few years ago: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_pamphlet_scandal

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

Oh, my. That's quite something, all right. I hope you all enjoyed a large and amusing media circus as things came to light.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

We've gotten to the point now that being nostalgic for the Golden Age means crotchety old codgers saying, "I remember when politicians were good liars."

I mean, really, the past ten years or so it's like they're not even trying.

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

Those slimy bastards will get away with it - we've let them get away with everything else.[1]

[1] Yes. Blanket statement. No. Not going to provide evidence - who would care?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

*raises hand in vain*

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

I know, right?

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

Okay, found a tidy list:
http://www.ipolitics.ca/2012/02/27/lawrence-martintrouble-in-toryland-their-dirty-tricks-catalogue/

[maruad.livejournal.com]

Nice summary. I don't doubt there may be some missing from the list, such as shutting down the CWB without holding the legally required vote with Western Canadian grain farmers.