Rob Shaw: Phantom BC Conservatives cast shadow over Rustad's leadership review (Business in Vancouver)

The more than 2,100 new members signed up suddenly to the BC Conservative party late last month had many fishy signs. But perhaps the most suspicious of all? Some of them were dead.

At least two of those members had passed away prior to registering to vote in the review of leader John Rustad. One Kelowna man died in March, but joined the BC Conservatives in August. Perhaps his interest was so great in the electoral process that he reached out from beyond the grave.

Political strategists will tell you it’s notoriously difficult to get out the vote. That is doubly so for the posthumous vote. Just when you need that person to put pencil to paper—poof, they vanish into thin air ...

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