Elections Canada hires 14 new ‘frontline’ staff to examine more than 31,000 ‘contacts’ on voter suppression issue

'The majority of the contacts have been made via automated forms or online form letters,' says Elections Canada spokesperson John Enright.

PARLIAMENT HILL—A “majority” of the 31,000 contacts from voters that prompted Elections Canada to step up its probe into the robocall vote-suppression controversy were not related to new complaints about wrongdoing in the federal election last year, a spokesperson for Elections...

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