Sooooo Shady Part...too many to count.
Un-f**king-believable! Sorry, but only an expletive will adequately express the anger and dismay I feel towards the Alberta government. The Edmonton Sun reported today that the returning officer for Edmonton-Castle Downs is none other than the incumbent, Tory MLA Thomas Lukaszuk's former executive assistant, Linda Brown! Allie Wojtaszek move over! A new poster-person for PC patronage has been crowned.
In case you don't remember, back in the 2004 election Lukaszuk was declared a winner only after 3 recounts and a margin of 3 votes over the Liberal candidate Chris Kibermanis. Now these two are going head-to-head again with Lukasuik's former EA personally overseeing the possible recount. That is, she will have the power to declare ballets spoiled and in the occasion of a tie, she will cast a ballot to declare a winner. If ever impartiality was needed in an election riding THIS WOULD BE THE CASE. As such the Alberta Libs are calling for the chief electoral officer to oversee this counts himself. However, I don't think even this will salvage the reputation of Elections Alberta and the Stelmach government. Post-democratic state, indeed.
Yet another reason why we need a change in government.
But where is the outrage? The apathy, especially on the student level, during this election is pissing me off.
Posted by: Avi | February 27, 2008 at 05:21 PM
If the federal Liberals did this we would hear conservatives howling but the P"C"s do it and it's just "meh"
Posted by: Brian Dell | February 27, 2008 at 11:09 PM
A huge conflict of interest. I was the scrutineer for the Liberal party at on one of the polls - we were watching VERY carefully.
Thomas
Posted by: Thomas | March 06, 2008 at 06:29 PM