Wahlen in Alberta ermitteln gegen Separatisten wegen Zugriffs auf Wählerlisten
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Wahlen in Alberta ermitteln gegen Separatisten wegen Zugriffs auf Wählerlisten
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Can’t wait for absolutely nothing to happen because one side of the political spectrum is held to different standards.
If they’re guilty, and face no consequences, we will have to either revolt, or be swept into a US-style the death spiral. It’s one or the other.
Having working as a consultant on some provincial political campaigns, it is absolutely guaranteed that multiple UCP riding associations have given electors lists to the separatists. Not even a shred of doubt.
Smith will probably dissolve elections Alberta if they start making things too uncomfortable for her separatist buddies
I have spent the past few years working for a political party on elector files and there’s a lot here that needs to be talked about.
Firstly, many provinces have it so the file is encrypted upon you receiving it. You get the key and then you’re good. For some provinces, that key has to be entered each time you open the CSV which means that when we uploaded it to our database we had to do it in a specific way.
However, once these files enter a database (Liberallist, CIMS, NationBuilder, etc) it is exceptionally easy to export that. In fact, I know of political parties in the country who pretty much anyone in riding associations can export at a minimum their riding.
This has always been a problem because parties are very relaxed run their security. I can’t even tell you how many membership lists are floating around the country of various parties.
The worst part of this all is that it’s next to impossible to track where it came from but I can virtually guarantee they have it based on all of the above. It takes one person to leak it.
I’m reading the CBC reporting.
>During the hearing, the court heard details of the Elections Alberta investigation into the database breach. The investigation hinged on something called „salted names,“ according to lawyers. Each electoral list released by Elections Alberta contained fictitious entries or false names. These allow investigators to trace each list back to its source in the event of a breach or contravention of access laws. Using a specialized program to probe the database, senior investigators allegedly determined that the list published on the database was the one legitimately given to the Republican Party of Alberta, court was told. It’s not clear how the list was shared with pro-separatist group Centurion Project, which hosted the database, but it was „once in the hands“ of the Republican Party, said lawyer Joseph Redman.
>This probe left investigators with a “high degree of certainty” that the list provided to the Republican Party and the one being shared to the public are a match, said Redman. But there is a „question mark“ around how Centurion Project obtained the list, the lawyer for Elections Alberta said. „How that transaction happened, I can’t say,“ Redman told the judge.
I find it quite gross that there’s a Republican Party operating in Canada.
[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/livestory/elections-alberta-electors-list-9.7182971](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/livestory/elections-alberta-electors-list-9.7182971)
The situation is decidedly not funny, but this particular quote and the associated note from the author is hilarious:
> When he revealed that TBA was under investigation in January 2024, Parker claimed that it was an instance of “lawfare” by the union fat cats at Elections Alberta (which isn’t unionized) in retaliation for his advocacy, pledging not to co-operate.