Fake email membership allegations rock Stone campaign prior to final vote
KAMLOOPS — A startling admission from Kamloops MLA Todd Stone’s campaign with just one day to go before BC Liberal members select their new leader.
The Vancouver Sun’s Rob Shaw is reporting the Stone campaign admits it had 1,349 memberships cancelled for people who had been signed up with fake email addresses.
Stone’s co-chair Peter Fassbender told Shaw “a social media marketing company the campaign had contracted created domain names and email portals to attach email addresses to new members…. many of whom who are non-English speaking Chinese residents from Richmond and Indo-Canadian residents from Surrey.”
Following an audit, the party deemed the memberships invalid and the Stone campaign agreed to remove them.