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Voter fraud
in B.C.?

Surely there’s no corruption in this province

Greg Klein | January 16, 2025

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How common are those lineups of people registering to vote, supposedly for the first time and impossible to vet, just five or 10 minutes before polls close?

The practice is well known, considered routine and, in B.C. provincial politics, universally tolerated. As a B.C. Liberal employee in 2004 I heard in advance that the party anticipated a last-minute registration lineup of NDP supporters at that year’s by-election in Surrey-Panorama Ridge (now mostly part of Surrey-Panorama). It happened as predicted. I’ve seen more closing time lineups on occasions when I voted just before 8:00 p.m. (as a pre-registered voter) in Vancouver-Mount Pleasant (in a polling place now part of Vancouver-Strathcona). There, the last-minute rush consisted of Commercial Drive stereotypes, predictably supporters of NDP poverty pimp-beneficiary Jenny Kwan.

There’s no credible way to scrutinize such late registrants. As long as they get in the door before 8:00 p.m. they qualify to register and, after dispensing with that apparent formality, to vote.

Why didn’t the B.C. Liberals kick up a fuss? Maybe they organized their own last-minute registration elsewhere.

Now strong evidence of voter fraud taking place last October in Surrey-Guildford challenges NDP incumbent Garry Begg’s 22-vote victory. Possibly referring to the last-minute registrants, the B.C. Conservatives say voters didn’t have to prove citizenship.

That’s just one of the allegations. Statements presented to B.C. Supreme Court by Begg’s Conservative challenger, Honveer Singh Randhawa, say 22 Surrey-Guildford voters didn’t live in the riding, one voter cast two ballots, and Argyll Lodge staff had their unwitting and/or fearful mental health and addiction patients complete mail-in ballots with the staff members’ choice of candidate. Argyll manager Baljit Kandola might be the same Baljit Kandola who previously donated $1,400 to the NDP.

Of 45 suspicious votes alleged by the Cons, 21 come from Argyll. If Begg’s 22-vote victory were overturned, an extra Con seat would change legislature standings to 46 Cons facing 45 NDPers and two Greens. The Green-supported NDP government would have to select one MLA as a theoretically non-voting speaker. In the event of a tie vote, however, the legislature’s standing orders state the speaker shall cast a vote. Nevertheless, transferring the role to a friendly Green might make the practice seem less expedient.

Meanwhile B.C. Con leader John Rustad further suggested that the NDP’s 2019 Election Act amendments aided absentee voting fraud. He added that his researchers “continue to examine connections between the management of related licensed addiction and substance facilities and NDP donors and supporters.”

That can raise questions about whether B.C.’s housing societies similarly manipulate their dependents. Argyll gets its money from Fraser Health, a heavily ideological authority that subordinates health care to the Gleichschaltung. (Randhawa opposes SOGI.) B.C.’s housing societies get their money from B.C. Housing, a heavily ideological funder of the poverty pimp industry. (Rustad promised an audit of B.C. Housing.)

 

Winters Hotel fire Atira Women’s Resource Society negligence

Irresponsible housing society management and staff might
disregard fire safety. But, given their poverty pimp opportunism,
they’re likely more diligent in manipulating clients.

 

Kandola and some Argyll staff might or might not hold genuine qualifications for their jobs. Housing society staff hold none, outside of NDP-related activism or cronyism. (Green Party members also qualify for housing society jobs.) Premier David Eby’s multi-billion-dollar expansion of B.C. Housing amounts to a multi-billion-dollar expansion of a poverty pimp empire that helps keep him in power.

Occasionally housing society corruption, like that of the PHS Society (aka Portland Hotel Society) and Atira Women’s Resource Society, comes to public attention. But that never happens until years after B.C. Housing finds out. There’s no indication how much other corruption the government’s housing operation currently keeps secret.

Rustad’s audit threat must surely have inflamed housing society indignation, not to mention activism. A financial audit alone would scare these phonies. A review of competence and hiring practices could destroy their entire industry.

A real review, that is. In this province audits, reviews, inquiries and inquests get careful stage-managing. That might also apply if Elections B.C. grants Randhawa’s request for an investigation.

B.C.’s tolerance of corruption—either through official complacency, negligence or collusion—must explain the widespread practice of unvetted voter registration. It also explains why housing society management and staff get away with mishandling money, pillaging money, neglecting maintenance, neglecting fire safety (sometimes with fatal consequences), allowing gang activity and other crime, and possibly taking part in gang activity and other crime. Oh yeah, they also wreck family communities.

So a newcomer to B.C. might consider it ironic that such infusoria would support an ex-cop candidate like Begg. But the pay-perks-and-pension parasite is as bad as they are, having grabbed extra money to support B.C.’s brazenly corrupt system of police accountability.

So has Rustad. So has recently retired Green MLA Adam Olsen.

Take your pick of any party. Or vote for them all. Think Elections B.C. would care?

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