The night the PQ almost stole a country

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The Dude
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The night the PQ almost stole a country

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Big surprise.

The "rejection of valid No votes" mostly took the form of special instructions to election officers in heavily federalist ridings (especially those with large anglo, Jewish, Native and immigrant communities) to apply ridiculously draconian standards for spolied ballots. The net effect was that a disproportinate number of No votes were thrown out.

Now it has come out that local polling stations were instructed to add a few nonexistent Yes votes each, in small enough numbers per station to look like normal counting errors, but large enough to influence the eventual outcome.

Of course, the government will not step in and force an investigation of the fraud because of the spending irregularities in the No campaign, which were the origin of the current sponsorship scandal. What a frickin' joke.
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That fat son of a bitch,i always knew that he was a rat but cheating thats low,well at least when he opened his mouth to whine about losing,he showed everyone how much of a fucking racist he is,plus the black woman standing behind him must have felt insulted.
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Stealing votes is such a bad thing to do.
I have to tell you something everything I wrote above is a lie.
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Post by Glocksman »

Thank God the US never succeded in invading Canada, otherwise we'd be dealing with the separatists. :shock:


And you know how the US dealt with separatists 150 or so years ago. :P
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Oooooohhh Caaaanaaadaaaaa!

At least the beer has more alcohol up there.
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