Please don’t fall for this.
Yes, mistakes are made. But when you consider the complexity of running and election for millions of people across Canada’s land mass, election officials do an amazing job.
Today we learned that Elections Canada made a mistake in Terrebonne with the return address written on the envelope of one voter. So her vote (for the Bloc) was never received and never counted. In this riding, it literally means the Liberal MP didn't win (since she won by 1 vote), but, more importantly, how many such mistakes happen in many ridings?
I think people need to admit that we have many problems in this country regarding how we run elections. The problem is one side can too easily fall for conspiracy theories. But the other side is way too happy to play dumb and pretend there are no problems. I suspect that side doesn't want to even acknowledge problems (and even less trying to solve them) because they like when the other side goes into conspiracy theories. I call it the "damage democracy to own the cons".
The address error today is bad but we also know EC forgot like 800 special ballots at someone's home. The validation process changed often hundreds of votes in many ridings and the recount in Terrebonne literally had more ballots found after the recount.
Last BC elections, we know one box was found later and there were other irregularities. We also had the issue that mail-in ballots are only counted much later. And I know of some votes in Strathcona that were attributed to the Green but, in all likelihood, it was a mistake and those were NDP votes.
Bottom line: we are witnessing many problems, from straight up errors to processes that should be improved. Saying Elections BC and Elections Canada had problems isn't the same as saying they are corrupt.
Can we please take a look at all of this and find solutions?