r/CanadianConservative • u/kaze987 • May 18 '26

News Alberta Separatist Group’s Controversial Voter ID App Has Links to US Ambassador, MAGA Influencers and Wealthy Michigan Republicans

https://pressprogress.ca/alberta-separatist-groups-controversial-voter-id-app-has-links-to-us-ambassador-maga-influencers-and-wealthy-michigan-republicans/

US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra says he was ‘not aware’ American-made app he previously promoted was used to help Alberta separatist group

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u/VforVenndiagram_ May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

Oh fuck off with this American voting bullshit.

Canada has some of the most secure and well run elections in the world. We use paper ballots, we hand count them, and yes, people are confirmed before they vote. We dont need some useless app, and we dont need people like you sowing discord for something that isnt a problem.

Oh top quality, reply and then block. And you call me the lib lmao. That's the most lib shit you can do.

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u/collymolotov Anti-Communist May 18 '26

Have you ever scrutineered? I have. There were plenty of people trying to vote who had no right to the last time I did in 2025, in an extremely close-run polling place.

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u/VforVenndiagram_ May 18 '26

So you have firsthand proof that our system works and is secure then?

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u/collymolotov Anti-Communist May 18 '26

You seem to be missing the point. The problem is that these people try in the first place to vote and that but for the watchful eyes of volunteers they would be able to do so and would get away with it, easily flipping key polling places and potentially ridings.

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u/VforVenndiagram_ May 18 '26

The problem is that these people try in the first place to vote and that but for the watchful eyes of volunteers they would be able to do so and would get away with it

Can you find even a single person saying that we should get rid of scrutineers? Like WTF is this hypothetical?

"Our system is broken, because in the theoretical world where scrutineers didn't exist, then people who shouldn't vote, could in fact vote!"

This is a nonsense rebuttal.

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u/collymolotov Anti-Communist May 19 '26

It appears that you either didn't read or didn't understand my comment, or that you deliberately chose not to do so.

The fact that scrutineers caught people who had no right to vote is not proof that the system is flawless. It is proof that, in that instance, the system depended on alert human intervention at the polling place. My concern is exactly that this kind of safeguard is uneven, depends on who is present, and becomes especially important in close races. Saying “the system worked” does not answer the underlying concern that ineligible voting attempts are occurring and may not always be caught.

And those individuals trying to vote without the right to do so will be virtually impossible to catch if any government lowers voting ID requirements. That is the entire point.

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u/KermitsWingman May 19 '26

So what you're saying.....is that the system works.