I still find it amazing that Steven Bryant was driven, helped by his friend David Janikowski, to figure out the puzzle of an abnormal number and distribution of “closely contested” ridings in the May 2, 2011 Federal Election within a couple days of the Election.
The Election results were in. They knew something was wrong right then. They went to work on the numbers and figured out the fraud of “vote moving”. They were alarmed, put together a video to explain how it works and posted the arguments in a weeks’ time. But in May 2011 no one gave them credibility, no one would listen.
Now hear this recent radio interview with Steven. He makes the additional important argument: The Chief Electoral Officer, Marc Maynard, had a responsibility to guard against fraud in the voting system. That there was a “leak in the ship” was known because of complaints from the previous Federal Election (reference an earlier posting).
The interview starts at the 40 minute mark. (Click on, and drag the timer along the bottom. It shows the time when it’s being dragged.) Listen to the end. Steven’s passionate plea to Canadians should be heeded.
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An interview in the Georgia Strait with Steven Bryant.
Maple Ridge resident calls for federal voter fraud inquiry http://www.straight.com/article-640706/vancouver/resident-calls-voter-fraud-inquiry
A Maple Ridge man believes illegal “vote moving” helped secure Prime Minister Stephen Harper his majority in the federal election last May 2, and now he wants a full public inquiry.
“Once I did the count, I realized that his vote split to take the majority [as opposed to another minority] was only 4,635 votes,” Steven Bryant told the Georgia Straight by phone. “And I thought that was really peculiar. I had really just complained to [a friend]…about the election process, about the results, for two days. He said, ‘Steve, why don’t you just go and do something about it?’ So I went and I started to do the math, and that’s when I realized that a lot of these ridings that were close-race ridings were in metropolitan areas like Toronto and Winnipeg and Regina and [Saskatoon–]
Rosetown–Biggar.”
Bryant said he got his total of the 4,635 majority-making votes from 13 of the closest races he could find, many of them in the Greater Toronto Area. According to Bryant, who said he has training in fraud management, Canada’s electoral system is wide open to abuse.
In his eight-minute YouTube video posted May 12, 2011, Bryant explains that moving votes requires certain conditions, like a close race happening next to projected lopsided races, such as Winnipeg’s Elmwood-Transcona riding, where Conservative MP Lawrence Toet won by only 300 votes but was surrounded by blue blowouts.
Bryant said the tactics are made possible thanks to election-day registrations, where he noted that a bank statement and one piece of secondary ID is enough to get you registered to vote, with only one of the two requiring an address.
“Allowing a bank statement is half of the weakness,” he said. “The other half is that no digital image of the original document, with name and address, was taken. Weak documentation plus no digital image equals an invite for fraud.”
Bryant said he contacted every MP but only Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May has so far responded. He said he also contacted Elections Canada but has not been given any help from the national agency. However, he said he is not getting as many dismissive comments online since the so-called robocalls scandal broke, and he said his YouTube hit count has increased to more than 3,600 from just 500 “pre robocalls”. He has also set up a website at www.votemoving.com/.
“I won’t feel vindicated until there’s a public inquiry and I can see how many little white pieces of paper were signed [same day registrations], like the one I signed,” Bryant said.
Long-time Green party activist Doug Gook told the Straight he met Bryant at a local rally and was immediately taken by his passion for justice. “I’ve been waiting for people who recognize the fraudulent loopholes in our electoral system—for the necessary combination of lawyers, judges, and people—that can press these issues further, to have as much conviction as Steven does,” Gook said by phone. “We need it. It’s a desperate situation. We can’t have another four years of this man [Harper]. So much would be so entrenched, court-system wise, and so much of that stuff would be so far gone. It would be a very dangerous situation.”
Gook said he also wants to see an inquiry and said Elections Canada officials should demand by-elections for any ridings they deem necessary.
James Hale, media relations officer at Elections Canada, did not make chief electoral officer Marc Mayrand available for an interview by deadline. Heritage Minister James Moore also did not return messages left by the Straight.
However, Burnaby–Douglas NDP MP Kennedy Stewart, a long-time political-science professor, told the Straight that a full public inquiry is “entirely necessary”. “For me, it’s like we’ve kind of been pretending that we’ve been operating in the 1950s environment, but now we’re firmly in the 21st century and we’re starting to lose control of the electoral process, the administration of elections,” Stewart said by phone from his Burnaby office.
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VOTE MOVING” RELATED TO THE ROBOCALL COURT CASES
The fraud that Steven and David figured out and named provides an important framework with which to test and understand what happened. Without a concept it’s hard to have an effective discussion.
Canadians are pretty amazing! These young people inspire and give hope to me. They actually make my day pretty fun.
(Along with those “extremist leftwing” Council of Canadians!)
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Two previous postings on “Vote Moving”: