Robocall Pilot Project: Elections Canada Drops the Ball in BC 2008
Channel: David Langer
Date: 2012-03-04

Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada, describes the automated dialer election fraud in the Saanich-Gulf Islands electoral district in 2008 as the pilot project for subsequent 2011 AD election fraud:  

In my riding in Saanich-Gulf Islands in 2008 ... there was a very very significant interference in the vote through automated dial calling into the riding and it was very plausible that it re-elected the conservative MP Gary Lunn .. the NDP candidate whose name was on the ballot had to withdraw when it was too late to take their name off the ballot ... on the night before the vote, thousands of calls were made in the riding to NDP supporters to say get out and vote NDP .. now remember there's no candidate for real, you could have had a majority of votes for the NDP and you would not have elected anybody, because the candidate had withdrawn, the name was on the ballot, the candidate had withdrawn; so the effect of this we think was they went from 1% in the polls the week before, but there was no candidate, to a 6% vote return on election day, and it was enough of a margin to deprive the Liberal of the chance to defeat Gary Lunn.. I think this was the pilot project for robocalls was Saanich-Gulf Islands in 2008.. there were lots of complaints filed, and there was affidavit evidence, there was tons of effort put in to get to the bottom of this, the Liberal Party an SGI complaint, the NDP an SGI complaint,  Elections Canada did an investigation, RCMP did an investigation, and they dropped the ball, they just said we can't figure it out because .. well first they were spoofed that the call displays were from an NDP phone number, that was the false trick.. so then they ended up finding the calls came from the United States, at that point they basically said "we can't figure out who did them and besides.. and since the candidates name was still on the ballot we don't really think it was election fraud" 
In my riding in 2011 we did have calls going to voters saying "this is elections Canada your poll has changed" We had angry people, we had confused people, and we reported it and within weeks of the election, May 19, I sent a letter to the head of Elections Canada to say "there are now widespread reports of phone calls that interfered, that told voters to go to different polling stations that were a blatant attempt to deny people the right to vote, the right to exercise their vote", nothing could be more disturbing in a democracy than a blatant attempt to prevent people from voting, however they were going to vote, and I never did have an answer from Elections Canada.. I have read the information that's been filed.. it's public court documents of the work that was done by Elections Canada to get to the bottom of this; what we now know.. their investigations have been restricted to Guelph, and the one person investigating it, it's apparent to me he doesn't have adequate resources.. he refers to having got information from one phone company that the phone number that the phone number he was looking at was a trunk route.. he didn't have any experts helping him [he wrote in the affidavit] "So then I went to Google and put in 'trunk route' and this is the definition I got from Wikipedia" .. a ton of what Elections Canada now knows and allowed them to decipher between Racknine and Bell and phone calls and how the whole thing worked was based on the fact that one of the complainants was an expert.