E-Day Canada: When Voter Suppression Came Calling
Sunday, March 1, at 10:00 am in Sunset (N108)

Date
January 25, 2020
About Project
DIRECTOR
Peter Smoczynski
COUNTRY
Canada
RUNNING TIME
100 mins
YEAR
2019
LANGUAGE
English
ABOUT THE FILM
Who meddled in the 2008 election in Saanich-Gulf Islands – and again in 2011 in hundreds of ridings across Canada – by misinforming voters via deceptive automated phone calls that polling stations had been relocated? Other such robocalls intentionally annoyed voters late at night with fake messages allegedly from opposition parties. This cautionary tale on underhanded – and under-investigated – election tampering and voter suppression tactics features Salt Spring resident Briony Penn and Elizabeth May, who maintains that “If the 2008 voter fraud in Saanich-Gulf Islands had been investigated properly, there might not have been the 2011 robocalls nationally. It was a dry run.”