[fvc-wat-disc] Raj Saini vote splitting leaflet

[Catherine Campbell]

Hi, Paul, I live in Waterloo riding, so I didn’t get the flier you described. I’m proud Fair Vote was able to print and distribute 10,000 fliers in Kitchener Centre. I hope it increased the voter turnout in Kitchener Centre from 48 percent in the previous election. Cathe Campbell 

> On Oct 22, 2019, at 10:10 PM, Anita Nickerson <anitann88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Paul, I'm very interested in this flyer with this pie chart that is pulled directly from Team Saini's professional fear-mongering team. 
> 
> Remember in 2015 when the Greens got in trouble in Victoria for distributing a misleading flyer about a poll? 
> 
> https://vancouversun.com/news/politics/greens-admit-to-deliberately-misleading-victoria-voters 
> 
> (I won't go into all the much worse stuff by the other parties this election). 
> 
> I wonder what made their flyer a violation of the Act and this not? Is it because maybe their flyer had numbers misrepresenting an actual poll, whereas Raj's random pie doesn't seem to represent anything except a hypothetical scenario?
> 
> In any case, we put our own flyer, based on a REAL poll - see below. It went to 10,000 houses the week before. DIRECTLY countering Raj's message.
> 
> I like to think that flyer helped the Greens and NDP keep some of their vote instead of people abandoning it in the ballot box for strategic (Liberal) voting as they usually do, because unlike many other places, the Green vote was exactly what the local poll said, not a lot lower. 
> 
> However, third party groups are very restricted in what they can spend in a riding. So while we could afford 10,000 of them delivered - I think it was $1500 or $2000 and this the first time in FVC history we had the money to do it - Saini's team could cover all 100,000 voters as often as they wanted pretty much, and spend 50 or 100x the money.
> 
> FVC is advocating for for some basic truth in advertising laws. Another thing parties will not be interested in ;)
> 
> Anita
> 
> <Kitchener-Centre-flyer-facebook.jpg>
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 9:26 PM Paul Nijjar via fvc-wat-disc <fvc-wat-disc at listserv.thinkers.org> wrote:
>> Did anybody receive the vote splitting leaflet that Saini sent out
>> this weekend? If you received it and are willing to take a picture of
>> it for me (or give it to me outright) then let me know. 
>> 
>> There are a few pictures of it online (for example, see: 
>> https://medium.com/@cldellow/why-im-not-voting-for-raj-saini-and-the-liberals-473936fb454f
>> ) but nobody who has taken a picture has given me permission to reuse
>> it. I would like to add the picture to the collection on my blog
>> (http://pnijjar.freeshell.org/2018/lib-votesplit/) and would give you
>> credit.
>> 
>> - Paul
>> 
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