“This is a fraud”: PiLievre wants rules to be changed to stop long election protests

The conservative leader Pierre Poilievre says that he wants Canada's electoral laws to be changed to prevent long election protests because he will compete against another next month.

“We have to take measures because this is a fraud. It is unfair, it is unfair and it has to stop,” said Poilievre about the long ballot protests that have taken place in recent years – also in Poilievres in this previous choice.

The conservative leader's comments came in a town hall in Stettler, Alta last week. Stettler is a municipality in the riding of the Battle River-Crowfoot, in which Poilievre regards a seat in the House of Commons.

Clips of the event were Posted online From a local news agency, the hometown of media.

An electoral group for election reform as the longest election committee Hat dozens of candidates organized in recent years, which has led to ballot pens with meter lengths, which caused and confused some voters to count the votes.

The group wants to adopt a citizens' meeting for the election reform and says that political parties are hesitating to make the government more representative for the electorate.

After the group fired the earlier riding from Carleton to Poilievres, the group now aims to register 200 candidates in the Battle River-Crowfoot-more than twice the 91, which ran in Carleton in April.

Poilievre said there were a number of changes that could prevent such protests from occurring. However, he expressly proposed to operate 1,000 signatures and ensure that voters can only sign a nomination form.

“It would make it impossible for 200 people to go out and to overthrow their names [candidate] List, “said Poilievre of the crowd in Stettler last week.

“There are a number of other things you could do that would do it that only real candidates who really run to drive their names in our democracy are on this list.”

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The conservative guide Pierre Poilievre is one of 91 candidates registered in the suburb in Ottawa by Carleton. It is Verdun for recording most candidates on the ballot paper with the selection of 2024 in the Montreal riding of Lasalle – Émard. The majority of the candidates are associated with an election reform group of the longest election committee. Mark Moutter, an independent candidate in riding, who is part of this initiative, follows power and politics to discuss why he put his name on this big ballot.

Candidates need 100 signatures from the voters in their driving to secure nomination, and voters are not prevented from signing several forms.

The longest election committee wrapped the Poilievrre's suggestions and said that such a great increase in the necessary signatures would have “negative effects on Canadian democracy”.

“This poorly made and selfish election reform proposal from voter reform of [Poilievre] Is almost dangerous and increases our conviction that politicians are not well suited to decide the rules of their own elections, “said the group in an explanation.

It was said that it would continue to use long ballots as a protest form, so “as long as we legally allow this”.

Poilievre is not the only one who is interested in curb long ballot protests.

The MPs examined the legislation last session, which the signature threshold would have actually reduced to 75. This calculation died when the house was preferred in January.

The Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault appeared in a house committee last autumn to offer his suggestions.

While he said he was in favor of lowering the threshold, Perrault argued that “certain punishments” should be imposed on people who sign – or encourage others to sign several nomination papers To bring as many candidates to a ballot as possible. He didn't say what these punishments should be.

The independent candidate asks demonstrators to withdraw

The longest election committee has already registered dozens of candidates in the Battle River-Crowfoot and drawn the anger of other candidates next to Poilievre.

Bonnie Critchley runs as independent and is an alternative to the conservative leader, of which she argues,

However, the Beaver County Local says that the protest makes it difficult for you as independence, which is actually interested in representing the voters of the Battle River-Crowfoot.

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In an open letter to the longest election committee, which was published on her campaign website, Critchley said that there is a “setback” in riding voters who fears that she is a “fake” candidate.

“I don't have a massive team, I have no support from millions of people. I have to go from door to door within my community and explain to my neighbors that I have nothing to do with you,” she wrote.

“I have to explain that I am here, in my house, and I stand for myself, my neighbors and my community against the man from Ottawa, who does not take care of it. Please do not bury me with your” legal “choice of election.”

Michael Harris, who runs for the libertarian party, named the protest as “ridicule of the democratic process”.

“This flood of joke candidates not only wastes the time of voters. It actively harms serious independent and third -party candidates who are working hard to give these real alternatives,” said Harris in a statement.

The deadline for registration as a candidate in the selection is July 28th. The election day in the Battle River-Crowfoot is August 18.