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Jamie Sarkonak: If only the UCP kneecapped woke like it did Elections Alberta
Disabling the elections overseer's ability to investigate while continuing to fund ideological anti-racism committees is a choice
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There are many public institutions that should be trimmed, neutered, or outright eliminated by the United Conservative Party of Alberta. It’s just that Elections Alberta isn’t one of them.
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But that is what happened in May 2025: the government passed the Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act, raising the standard by which Elections Alberta was to initiate an investigation. The new threshold was a major reason why it took a whole month for the elections overseer to deal with an alleged unauthorized leak of the provincial voter list, in which the personal data of some three million Albertans ended up on the website of the separatist Centurion Project.
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The whistleblower who called in the leak back on March 31 was none other than Jen Gerson, an independent journalist (and Post alumna) who initially heard it from a source who used a burner account to join the Centurion Project. Her account from April 30 reports that her source was able to access data on “what appeared to be millions of people” including Gerson........