Robocalls Culprit Confesses To Misleading Election Phone Calls

The Huffington Post Canada  |  By   |  Posted: 04/ 1/2012 9:05 am Updated: 04/ 1/2012 9:41 am

Robocalls Dalek Canada

GUELPH, Ont. — The culprit behind hundreds of misleading phone calls made to voters during the last federal election has revealed himself in a confession obtained exclusively by The Huffington Post Canada.

Pierre P. Dalek, originally of the planet Skaro but now residing in Guelph, Ont., said he had begun to crack under the pressure as investigators with Elections Canada closed in on him and his 2011 scheme to "exterminate" Canadian democracy.

Dalek refused to confirm the motives behind the campaign: "Exterminate," he said when asked if the subversion of the voting process was meant to boost cynicism and further erode the confidence of Canadians in their political system.

Dalek has no remorse — he’s incapable of feeling compassion or regret, he told HuffPost in a one-on-one interview conducted April 1 in a park along the town’s Speed River. He said he's furious, however, that the misnomer "robocalls" has been applied to the growing scandal, noting he is not a robot, but rather a mutant with robot-like features. He would not comment on whether he acted alone or whether other Daleks in other ridings across Canada had sought to tamper with the electoral process.

"Exterminate," he added.

A long-time foe of Dr. Who, Dalek said he has a fresh hate-on for Postmedia reporters Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor, as well as the CBC’s Kady O’Malley (for obvious reasons).

Elections Canada Chief Marc Mayrand refused to comment on the Dalek confession saying that the matter was still under investigation. Earlier this week, he told a Commons committee that investigators were examining 800 complaints involving 200 ridings.

"It's totally unacceptable in a modern democracy,” Mayrand told MPs.

“Exterminate,” Dalek replied.

More Dalek shenanigans below.

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05:41 PM on 04/02/2012
EXTERMINATE!
E X T E R M I N A T E ! !
06:26 AM on 04/02/2012
Interesting
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Transitteer
and another thing . . .
02:46 AM on 04/02/2012
Yeah . . . April Fool's Day. Anyone who knows Dr Who would've spotted this one right away . . .
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Add In Canadia
Egotism is a weakness
07:59 PM on 04/01/2012
Only the Doctor can save us now! Or perhaps he was already sent to save us, but failed in the not-so-distant past....
05:38 PM on 04/02/2012
The Doctor only saves the citizens of England, for some reason!
The Daleks in a secret deal, have obtained the rights to the rest of the world!!
Do not investigate Robocalls any further, or risk waking the dragon and incurring our wrath...
Exterminate! Exterminate!!
05:31 PM on 04/01/2012
Does this mean Stephen Harper is in cahoots with the Daleks? Actually, I'm pretty sure Harper is a Cyberman.
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dannyboy551
Emperor Harper needs to be booted out of power
11:00 AM on 04/02/2012
The hair gave him away - there is no way that fro moves even in a hurricane force wind.
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robertmiller252
04:48 PM on 04/01/2012
Didn't anyone figure out that it is April 1st.

April Fool's Day you all.
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Gav Lafreniere
04:11 PM on 04/01/2012
Dear Can Huff: Couldn't you have been more subtle?
Donna Meness
www.findmaisyandshannon.com
03:49 PM on 04/01/2012
My Right-wing Degree

How I learned to convert liberal campuses into conservative havens at Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute, alma mater of Karl Rove, Ralph Reed, Jeff Gannon and two Miss Americas.

By Jeff Horwitz

May 24, 2005 | One recent Sunday, at Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute, a dozen students meet for the second and final day of training in grass-roots youth politics. All are earnest, idealistic and as right wing as you can get. They take careful notes as instructor Paul Gourley teaches them how to rig a campus mock election.

It's nothing illegal -- no ballot stuffing necessary, even at the most liberal colleges. First you find a nonpartisan campus group to sponsor the election, so you can't be accused of cheating. Next, volunteer to organize the thing. College students are lazy, and they'll probably let you. Always keep in mind that a rigged mock election is all about location, location, location.

"Can anyone tell me," asks Gourley, a veteran mock electioneer, "why you don't want the polling place in the cafeteria?"

Stephen, a shy antiabortion activist sitting toward the rear of the class, raises his hand: "Because you want to suppress the vote?"

"Stephen has the right answer!" Gourley exclaims, tossing Stephen his prize, a copy of Robert Bork's "Slouching Toward Gomorrah."

http://www.yuricareport.com/GOPorganizations/MyRightWingDegreeFromLeadershipInsti.html
Donna Meness
www.findmaisyandshannon.com
03:47 PM on 04/01/2012
"Conservative operative Michael Sona, is taking the fall for the voter suppression scandal and has resigned as a staffer. What the conservatives would like us to believe is that he acted alone. Give me a break.

Sona, in the background during Ezra Levant's sponsorship of Ann Coulter, is a product of the Manning Centre for Destroying Democracy, fashioned after Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute.

Voter suppression is one of the courses taught...
read the rest...sigh

http://pushedleft.blogspot.ca/2012/02/one-young-staffer-is-not-enough.html

&

.http://pushedleft.blogspot.ca/2012/02/why-are-we-so-shocked-to-learn-that.html
03:33 PM on 04/01/2012
This is a pretty lame April Fool's Day joke. Everybody knows it is Stephen Harper's quasi dictaorship that is behind the robocalls and that even though Harper and his government may seem to be from another planet they are in fact from this planet and though thinking of Harper et al as homo sapiens is a stretch, they actually are.
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SeeTheFnords
Look out - there's one behind you!
05:43 PM on 04/01/2012
Well, perhaps Harper is in fact the Supreme Dalek, just in the new meat-based body armor, instead of the old metal dalek-shaped one.
05:39 PM on 04/02/2012
Heresy!! The Supreme Dalek is much more ruthless....
More of a Dick Cheney.....
Exterminate! Exterminate!!
03:13 PM on 04/01/2012
the sad part is that this is pretty close to the truth
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stopgeorge
Paper Ballots WORK. Unverifiable e-voting doesn't
02:48 PM on 04/01/2012
Sorry. Election fraud is not funny.
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Murman
Durn thing got stuck in the dad-gum snow.
05:29 PM on 04/01/2012
fanned. Last I heard, it was illegal.
05:30 PM on 04/01/2012
We're Canadians, we can laugh at ourselves, even when the situation is very serioys.
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stopgeorge
Paper Ballots WORK. Unverifiable e-voting doesn't
05:46 PM on 04/01/2012
If it was smart satire which got to the heart of the issue -- yes, I would laugh.

But Canadians know what is smart satire -- and this is not it.
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Opus Fideo
Atheist. Social Democrat. Canadian.
01:45 PM on 04/01/2012
Harper must be happy that people are making light of this.
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Sirlarek
∞-1
12:39 AM on 04/02/2012
I hope it connects to his office and forces him to resign...and move back to his former planet.
11:43 AM on 04/01/2012
Made me laugh a lot. But I'm a huge fan of Dr. Who so I guess I'm a bit bias
05:40 PM on 04/02/2012
Provide your location for extermination!!
11:36 AM on 04/01/2012
Not funny, even for April Fools!