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Elections Canada email trail points to growing suspicions over voter suppression "mischief" during 2011 election

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OTTAWA -- Three days before the last federal election, Elections Canada confronted the Conservatives about suspicious calls directing voters to the wrong polling stations but were met with denials of any wrongdoing from the party's lawyer, internal emails show.

In one email, an official with the agency reported a growing number of misleading calls as voting day approached and said some were worried that a "scam" to mislead voters was under way.
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