All I Want For Christmas... Is Clean Elections

Yesterday The Globe and Mail picked up a story that originally appeared in the Waterloo Region Record, almost as an addendum to the Irwin Cotler affair, that the CPC was caught calling voters this last election day and directing them to vote at the wrong polling station. Of course like good Conservatives always do, they claim it was an honest mistake. I for one don't believe that for a second. Between this, "In and Out," and the RCMP intervention in the 2006 election we're seeing a pattern of dirty tricks that would make Nixon blush. Imagine if the F.B.I. had announced a criminal investigation of Hubert Humphrey in 1968 during the election campaign.

As the story was posted across the country on the internet, more and more voters were claiming on message boards across the country that they had in fact received the same types of calls on election day. What we seem to have here is anecdotal evidence of a concerted effort on the part of the Cons to disenfranchise potential voters, or at the very least, cause enough confusion that the voter would just give up and not vote. It happened in ridings that were considered very close as of election day, and it appears the calls, at least the one to Carolyn Siopiolosz in Waterloo originated from my back yard in Lambton County.

We now appear to have our own Nixonian government, hell bent on destroying perceived enemies of the party. One of Nixon's downfalls was that he actually believed he was above the law, and in the end was taken down with an unflattering thud from high atop the political mountain. History has a tenancy to repeat itself, lets hope for our sake this proves correct in this case.