While up to 200 fraudulent votes may have been cast in the 2017 leadership contest, the RCMP said the force doesn’t have enough evidence to charge any suspects
into the inaugural United Conservative Party leadership race. But if you were looking for a smoking gun, you’re going to be disappointed.
While 200 potentially fraudulent votes should not be dismissed as nothing, the number would not have affected the outcome of a race Kenney handily won with more than 36,000 votes, around double what his nearest opponent, Brian Jean, received. While there were questions raised about funny business in the contest at the time, the RCMP said they didn’t receive a complaint until February, 2019.
The RCMP, while taking five years before essentially closing their investigation, say they conducted hundreds of interviews, used 65 investigators, and spent more than $460,000 in overtime and travel expenses to British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia. They also required translation for Arabic, South Asian and Chinese languages.
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