Belinda is concerned

[Michael Wilson]

I read somewhere that the system they implemented
doesn't take into account that more than 1 person in a
region can have the same name, who the heck designs a
system with a name as a primary key?

 --- Peter Hiscocks <phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org> wrote: > 
> 
> Isn't it wonderful? Manually, it takes weeks to do
> it, but with a computer
> you can screw up an entire membership list with a
> few lines of computer
> code.
> 
> Peter
> 
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> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:44:40 -0500 (EST)
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> Belinda Stronach Update 
> *Newsflash*
> Thursday, March 11, 2004 
> 
> 
> Yesterday our campaign director wrote to the
> executive director of the Conservative Party. He
> expressed our serious concern – shared by our
> competitors – that the party's faulty computer
> system is rejecting tens of thousands of legitimate
> party memberships.
> 
> The computer is arbitrarily changing addresses,
> names and ridings. It is deleting names. And it is
> rejecting new members if another member with a
> similar name lives in the same province.
> 
> This is not a political or campaign issue. It is an
> issue about fairness, treating people with respect
> and basic democratic rights.
> 
> It is about party members – whomever they may
> support – who have joined in good faith, paid their
> fees, then were rejected by a computer.
> 
> It is unacceptable that any member, much less tens
> of thousands, be disenfranchised. We have asked that
> this problem be fixed prior to the leadership
> election day. If need be, the vote should be delayed
> until the right of these members to vote is
> restored.
> 
> Some who defend the status quo argue that it is
> unprecedented to delay the vote. We say an election
> cannot take place when so many members have been
> denied their democratic right to vote because of
> computer glitches.
> 
> Others suggest we want to "change the rules." They
> are wrong – in fact, the opposite is true. Tens of
> thousands of members followed the rules in good
> faith only to be denied a vote by a computer at
> party headquarters. We think the same rules should
> apply to everyone equally.
> 
> There are some issues that transcend partisanship.
> This is one of them. The Stronach campaign wants to
> co-operate with the Harper and Clement campaigns and
> with party officials to solve this problem quickly.
> 
> You can read our letters to the party at
>
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> Let's work together to solve this problem.
> 
> 
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> Peter D. Hiscocks                         	   
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