Patrick Brown'sleadership campaign raises concerns about what is called a "misunderstanding" email sent to party members by his major rivals. It is.
Brown's National Campaign Co-Chair John Reynolds sent a letter to the party's leader election organizing committee on Thursday,Pierre Poirievre'sprior to last month's sales deadline. 9} Requested to investigate emails sent from the campaign. $ 15 membership to supporters.
To vote for the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, the party stated that its supporters would need to be registered as members by June 3.
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Poirievre's campaign has 312,000 memberships through his website, including about 119,000 in Ontario, which said it sold almost by itself.
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However, Reynolds' letter says that Brown's campaign has an incomplete membership status from Poilievre's team. "Official-looking warning". The
email clearly states that it is from the Poilievre campaign.
A spokesman for Poilievre's team said the email in question was addressed to people who were not members "according to our own records."
"Registering someone who is already a member has no benefit," writes Anthony Koch. "They can only vote once."
Poirievre also requested the party's release number for the number of members his team registered. So far, he refuses to do this.
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Party spokesman Yaroslav Baran confirmed on Thursday that Brown's complaint was accepted and needs investigation. Confirmed to be evaluated to.
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Meanwhile, he is currently the main focus sold by six candidates running in the race. He said it was about verifying membership.
The Conservative Party supports having a voting base with a potential of over 600,000, which would be a record break for the party.
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By comparison, when former leader Erin O'Toole was elected in the Conservative Party's final leadership race in 2020, the party boasted a voting base of 270,000 voters.
Balun states that "there is an army of a small number of people" and is working to verify the membership sold to make it non-compliant.
He said the party is on track to keep its promise that a "preliminary voter list" will soon be offered to the campaign. The date of occurrence was set to July 4.
Balun said he was less concerned about overlapping memberships, as they are easy to identify. He said that if someone buys two memberships, the party simply counts the additional one as another year of membership.
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The campaign of fellow MP Reslin Lewis, who finished third in the 2020 Leadership Race, previously had "tens of thousands" of duplications. Poilievre is partly responsible for expressing concern about the possible existence of membership.
Another factor is the delay in processing party membership sales, said Mike Coates, former Premier of Quebec's chairman of the leadership campaign for Jean Charest.
In his own letter to the party's leader election organizing committee chairman, Mr. Coates did not receive timely confirmation from anyone who purchased the membership. Said that some people bought a copy.
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