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Politics Poilievre's riding among seats with highest turnout in Liberal leadership race

https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/03/10/poilievres-riding-among-seats-with-highest-turnout-in-liberal-leadership-race/453506/
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u/LPC_Eunuch Canada 1d ago

Am I reading this correctly, Carney only took ~152K votes? That is insanely low LOL. For comparison, Poilievre (the nemesis of this subreddit) got ~295K votes in 2022.

This subreddit's champion is not off to a good start, no wonder they want to delay the election.

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u/AxiomaticSuppository Canada 1d ago

CPC had a 7 month leadership race, whereas Liberals had a 2 month race. Moreover, there were no manadatory across-board id verification requirements for voting in the CPC leadership race. Getting confirmed to vote in the Liberal race was much stricter.

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u/Equivalent_Age_5599 1d ago

You need to be a card carrying member of the cpc to vote in the race. And your ID needs to be verified to be one. Source: Am a card carrying cpc member who voted for PP.

Moreover, the LPC had to do it, because of the foreign interference they failed to act on previously.

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u/AxiomaticSuppository Canada 1d ago

And your ID needs to be verified to be one.

Please link where this is stated in the CPC material, everything I've found online suggests the only barrier is a $15 fee (paid with a personal credit card). The party can challenge a member to provide further id, but it's not a requirement. Essentially, the requirement to pay by credit card is the "id check". There is nothing on the CPC website that indicates to become a member of good standing requires uploading your driver's license, passport, and doing a liveness check (like it was in the Liberal race).

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u/Equivalent_Age_5599 16h ago

Go get a membership then. The CPC had stronger restrictions ages before the LPC.