But the letter quoted candidate Patrick Brown, the mayor of Brampton and former Ontario PC leader, acknowledging that “everyone knows” that candidates buy memberships for their supporters and likening the practice to “jaywalking.”
The way this works is, a campaigner might be able to convince some random citizen they should vote in the CPC leadership election for Brown, but actually buying a party membership to do it will turn some people off. At that point, the campaigner says "Here, we'll give you the money" and hands the citizen a prepaid credit card.
Worse is the fake ids and sock puppets in social media factories in China using VPN and voip to spoof real Canadians as new conservative voters all voting Charest.
This is potentially how they did otooles fake votes.
Only costs a few million i would gather. I would put nothing past the social democratic liberal machine.
The way this works is, a campaigner might be able to convince some random citizen they should vote in the CPC leadership election for Brown, but actually buying a party membership to do it will turn some people off. At that point, the campaigner says "Here, we'll give you the money" and hands the citizen a prepaid credit card.
Worse is the fake ids and sock puppets in social media factories in China using VPN and voip to spoof real Canadians as new conservative voters all voting Charest.
This is potentially how they did otooles fake votes.
Only costs a few million i would gather. I would put nothing past the social democratic liberal machine.