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

[Jennifer Ross]

So, interestingly VoteWell doesn't say the dates of the polling of the poll
aggregator, nor the date of the aggregator's summary.  So it could have
been from June 10, for example.


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On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:58 PM Paul Nijjar via fvc-wat-disc <
fvc-wat-disc at listserv.thinkers.org> wrote:

> 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
> >
>
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