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

[Paul Nijjar]

According to a Twitter thread I cannot find now, the data is pulled
from votewell.ca. I do not see how to
make a permalink, but you can go to the site and see the numbers for
Kitchener Centre. Saini also tweeted a screenshot of the site during
the campaign: 

https://twitter.com/RajSaini4KitCen/status/1185370722895646721

- Paul

PS: Some of you may have friends or family who are not on the Liberal
blacklist. Some of them may have received the flyer. If anybody can
find it I would be very grateful. 


On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:10:46PM -0400, Anita Nickerson 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
>