Conservatives float electoral reform to combat ‘political prank’ protest group from flooding ballots with names

Conservative MP Tako van Popta says limiting voters’ signatures to supporting one candidate could counter the ‘belligerence’ and ‘obstinacy’ of the Longest Ballot Committee, whose efforts had over 200 running in August Alberta byelection.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has called for increasing the number of signatures required for candidates to run for office and limiting voters’ signatures to one candidate's nomination form.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ELEANOR WAND

October 7, 2025

Conservative MPs are slamming the efforts of a protest group that disrupted Leader Pierre Poilievre's campaigns in the April federal election and subsequent Alberta byelection by adding hundreds of candidates to those contest ballots, dubbing the organization a “farce,” ...

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