Claims about election integrity have circulated online since Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre lost his Carleton riding to Liberal Bruce Fanjoy by more than 4,000 votes. CBC’s Ashley Fraser fact-checks some of those claims.
Claims of fraud and unfairness continue to spread over Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s election loss in his Ottawa riding of Carleton nearly two weeks ago.
Poilievre lost to Liberal Bruce Fanjoy by 4,513 votes. Some have questioned how that was possible, considering how well the Conservatives did overall. Also, Poilievre held the riding for 20 years and in the last election, he won by more than 10,000 votes.
Poilievre conceded that he lost this time and the Conservatives have not made allegations that the vote was unfair, wrong or conducted improperly.
Here are the facts of what happened.
100% turnout? Really?
No, not really.
Some suggested the vote was illegitimate because they felt the numbers didn’t add up. By their math, they estimated turnout was nearly 100 per cent, …