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Thu Mar 1, 2012, 11:52 PM Mar 2012

More complaints of fraudulent election calls from Conservatives, this time in British Columbia

Source: CBC News

... Astrid Dimond said she had been called six times for Conservative donations during the last election. After a seventh call, she said she did an internet search on the caller’s phone number, which had shown up on her call display.

"It came up as the Conservative Party in Victoria," Dimond said.

... Two days before the election, Dimond said she got another call from the same number.

“(The caller) just said, ‘Did you know the polling station had changed,’ and basically, I said, ‘No it hasn't,’ and that was the end of the conversation. I wouldn't let her continue because I knew it was a falsehood."

... CBC News has been told about suspicious calls in nine B.C. ridings:

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/03/01/bc-suspicious-election-calls-dimond.html

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