politicalcanuck:

A Conservative staffer has resigned following reports that Elections Canada is investigating fake election day phone calls used to keep voters away from polls.

Michael Sona, who until Friday was a staffer in Conservative MP Eve Adams’s office, also worked for Conservative candidate Marty Burke in Guelph, Ont.

Voters in that riding complained they were the target of automated robocalls claiming to be on behalf of Elections Canada that directed them to the wrong polling station. Telling voters to go to the wrong or non-existent polling stations is a voter suppression tactic and illegal under the Elections Act.

Opposition MPs let loose on the Conservative Party on Thursday after an Ottawa Citizen report linked a call centre used by some of their campaigns to the robocalls.

Sona offered his resignation and it was accepted, a source told CBC News.

This, btw, is the bloke who allegedly grabbed a ballot box from the University of Guelph.

Stephen Harper says he was unaware of the robocalls.  I believe him, and I’m willing to acknowledge that maybe it shouldn’t be a blackmark against the Conservatives as a whole.  After all, they’re a massive party and if a bad egg showed up among the NDP, I’d probably say exactly that.  

That said, the Conservatives have given me little reason to be kind and give them the benefit of the doubt.  So in this case, my reaction is: this is Stephen Harper’s party (after all, it is the Harper Government) so, he is responsible for what they do.