A B.C. political scientist says social media questioning of the provincial election's integrity is an 'inevitable' result of political 'toxicity' and a tight race.
A person walks to a polling station to vote on election day in Vancouver, on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
“There is a relationship between the closeness of results and the toxicity of the commentary around it,” Johnston said. “Initial count takes place on election night,” Watson said. “Final count takes place one week later and lasts three days. This timing is established under the Election Act and has long been the process in B.C.
“Elections BC staff have been working tirelessly and doing their best within the confines of the legislation that governs their work,” Estey said in her post. He said increased use of advance voting, mail-in and absentee ballots, as well as digital vote tabulation, were being compared unfavourably by some with more basic voting and hand-counting systems used in the past.
Fox News agreed last year to pay Dominion nearly US$800 million to avert a trial in the company’s lawsuit that would have exposed how the network promoted lies about the election.
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