The Conservative Party of Canada states that about 675,000 members are eligible to vote for this year's leadership race.
Party representatives told reporters Thursday that historical figures reflect the success of each campaign's outreach efforts.
"There are six credible candidates, each with a slightly different message to the Canadians, but in summary, they resonate in the way that created this extraordinary mobilization," the leadership election said. Organizing Committee.
Before the membership registration deadline for June 3 is set, in February, about 113,000 active members nationwide, excluding members whose members are scheduled to expire by that date. There was.
Preliminary 675,000 aggregates have removed membership that overlaps with non-compliance sales (transactions that do not follow leadership rules).
"In the frenzy of leadership competition, it's normal to attract people who don't know all the inside and outside of the party's fiscal rules," Brody said.
Of those who registered in the last few months, 95% purchased membership online.
The party will release a list for individual campaigns on Thursday. Candidates and their teams must challenge names that they feel are "inappropriately" listed until midnight on Monday.
By the same deadline, you can also request an additional name if you think you missed it.
"Our Supreme Returning Officer Don Nightingale has the authority to make decisions on issues, after which his decisions can be appealed to our Dispute Resolution Appeals Commission. Once all of these challenges have been resolved, the Supreme Returning Officer will publish a list of final voters, "Brodie said.
The party usually does not publish a spare membership number, but this time it did because of the noticeable surge.
The latest highs were recorded during the 2004 party merger. It has reached 282,000 members by combining several leadership contests.
The ballot package will be mailed together over the next few weeks and must be returned by September 6, the party said. The new leader will be nominated on September 10.
In the 2020 leadership race, thousands of ballots were damaged at the start of the race, resulting in a significant delay in the results of.
The automatic envelope opener was slicing both the envelope and some ballots, so the same data would have to be remarked on the new ballots for proper scanning and tabulation. was.
Yaroslav Baran, media communications officer for the current leadership contest, told CTVNews.ca Thursday that he changed the process to avoid similar issues.
"Given the amount we are dealing with, the party has really increased the number of people processing at every stage. There is a small army of people working on this, and that small army. Will be diverted to ballot verification as we enter that stage, "Balun said in an email statement. According to the campaign of candidate Jean Charest of
, membership numbers are "great news" for the party and "very confident" that they have an ambitious foundation. "apparently.
"We will continue to convince party members by providing real ideas and solutions to make them more competitive in the next federal election," Michel Coates Mother, Director of Communications, said in a statement. increase.
Scott Aitchison's campaign manager, Jamie Ellerton, said 675,000 Canadians have "stepped up" to help the party "strive for a better Canada."
"Scott Hisson will launch a national tour of hope and respect next month to build a Conservative Party that can provide results and good government that Justin Trudeau can't or doesn't want to offer. We will continue to work on it, "said the statement. ..
CTV News contacted all campaigns for comment, but at the time of publication, they only heard from the above.
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