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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
by rcfox 13y ago
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.
- cryptoz 13y ago> 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.
- rcfox 13y agoApparently, it's gradually being reduced until next year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_political_financing_in_Canada#Per-vote_subsidy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_political_financing_in_...