Mike Coates suggested the duplicate sales could have one of two origins: one, processing delays meant people bought a second card because they hadn’t received confirmation of their first one, and two, the potential that “acts of deception” were behind membership sales claims. In a letter to the leadership organizing committee, Jean Charest’s campaign chair said they have concerns there are “mass amounts” of duplicate memberships, which is inflating the totals. The other four candidates have not released their membership sales totals.īut one of their campaigns demanded Wednesday the party put to rest speculation around sales figures and immediately release an interim list of members. On top of those sales, the party had about 140,000 existing members at the outset, and about 150,000 memberships were sold directly through the party’s website, not through any one candidate. The bottom line number of new members will likely reignite a debate over whether candidates’ claims to their own membership sales are true.Ĭandidate Pierre Poilievre’s team said it sold 311,000 memberships, while Patrick Brown’s campaign has claimed 150,000, and both accuse the other of making up those figures. While the rules of the race say they must get one no later than July 29, the party is working to at least provide an interim list within the next several days.
Without it, they can’t begin trying to win over supporters from their rivals and extensive get-out-the-vote efforts. The six candidates in the race are eager to receive an updated membership list from the party.
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“It’s the flip side of having such high memberships now and having such an intensive verification process underway,” party spokesman Yaroslav Baran said. Late Tuesday, a slew of new members received emails welcoming them to the party and asking they verify their mailing address to make sure they get a ballot.Ĭlicking to do so resulted in an error message for about 30 minutes, the party confirmed to the Star, as the server couldn’t handle the volume of demands. The party has insisted it’s got the matter in hand, having hired extra staff and even preordered many of the supplies it’ll need to put together the mail-in ballot kits expected to go in the mail in late July or early August. The volume of new sales - more than the number of members signed up for the party’s last two leadership contests combined - has raised persistent questions about whether the party’s infrastructure is up to the task. The party is rapidly moving to validate the hundreds of thousands of new membership applications to get a voters list into the hands of the six candidates in the coming days - a process that at least one campaign said Wednesday must happen swiftly to ensure trust in the system.Īround 600,000 people are expected to be eligible to vote, and the winner will be decided by Sept. Sadler said Wednesday night that not everyone had been accounted for.OTTAWA - The Conservative party’s website briefly crashed due to a surge in demand from new members trying to ensure they get a ballot to vote in the leadership race. The crashes shut down all lanes of busy Interstate 30, which links Little Rock to Dallas.Īrkansas State Police reported multiple fatalities Wednesday afternoon and troopers were working to account for all of the motorists involved. The wrecks, which started with a two-vehicle collision that led to at least two other chain-reaction crashes, were weather-related, Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The Wednesday afternoon crashes began in the eastbound lanes of the interstate near Friendship, Arkansas, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Little Rock, the Arkansas Department of Transportation said.
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(AP) - Traffic remained blocked Thursday morning in westbound lanes of heavily traveled Interstate 30 in southwestern Arkansas, where at least three people were killed the previous day during a series of crashes that happened during stormy weather, authorities said.
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