Did vote mobs work?
In the Top Ten campus ridings, voters elected four Conservatives, three New Democrats and three Liberals and eight saw voter turnout surpass the national average.
It was the one new, interesting feature of the Election of 2011—"a flash phenomenon storming campuses," CTV called it. It was the spectre of "vote mobs" fuelled by a media campaign to raise turnout by Canada's youngest electors.
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