US EditionLong-ballot protest group signs up more in Alberta byelection featuring Poilievre
ALBERTA, JUL 22 – The Longest Ballot Committee registered over 150 candidates to protest election rules, prompting Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to seek reforms to prevent ballot flooding.
- Elections Canada reported 152 candidates have registered, including Pierre Poilievre, for the Aug. 18 byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot, setting a record.
- In recent years, the group held long-ballot protests, with advocates pushing for a citizens’ assembly, motivated by concerns over electoral reform resistance.
- The committee recruits electors to sign multiple nomination forms, using one official agent for all candidates, with Tomas Szuchewycz representing 146 Independents.
- Poilievre wrote, `This is not democracy in action. It is a deliberate attempt to manipulate the rules, confuse voters and undermine confidence in our elections,` and calls on the Liberal government to change nomination rules.
- He proposes requiring 0.5 per cent signatures, candidates support only one, and each candidate have a single official agent.
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Poilievre Calls for Reforms to Block Long Ballot Protests as Byelection Candidates Top 160
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is asking the federal government to introduce changes to Canada’s election rules to make it harder for protest groups to flood ridings with inauthentic candidates. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said in a July 22 letter to Liberal House leader Steve MacKinnon that the Longest Ballot Committee protest movement is confusing voters and undermining democracy after it signed up more than 100 candidates to ru…
For the Battle River—Crowfoot partial, the total number of candidates reached 138 on Monday afternoon.
Pierre Poilievre calls on government to act as more than 150 candidates register in byelection
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the government to take action against the advocacy group that’s encouraged nearly 150 candidates to register as Independents in the upcoming byelection in rural Alberta’s Battle River—Crowfoot riding, where he too is running in the hopes of winning back a seat in the House of Commons.
Long-ballot group signs up more candidates for byelection featuring Poilievre
EDMONTON -- An advocacy-protest group that broke its own record last week for putting the most candidates on an election ballot is now up to 132 for the federal Battle River--Crowfoot byelection in Alberta.
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