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CPC HQ: What Moron Leaves Counting the Ballots to the Last Second?

Published August 24, 2020 by Christopher di Armani Filed Under: Politics


Congratulations to Erin O’Toole, the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Your work begins today.

Hopefully it includes sweeping out the rot at Conservative Party Headquarters (and the rest of Ottawa, too).

Now, a few hard questions for CPC HQ and the utter debacle they displayed for Canada last night.

 

CPC Leadership Starting Soon

First.

CPC HQ, are you so self-absorbed you can’t think beyond the immediate moment?

CPC HQ, are you so self-obsessed you can’t be bothered to consider what might go wrong and build contingency plans for each scenario?

From out here in the cheap seats occupied by mere citizens, the answer to both questions is a resounding “YES!”

Why, when you knew the train was going off the rails, did you not send MPs to every network in the country so they could fill all that dead air with a positive Conservative message?

Why did you let every talking head in the nation ridicule you and, by extension, all 270,000 members of the Conservative Party?

Instead of seizing the opportunity to turn toilet water into wine, CPC HQ, you wallowed in the swill, content to place a stupid image (see above) on Facebook and YouTube while you pretended your complete and utter failure wasn’t displayed on national television for over 6 hours straight.

Disgraceful doesn’t even begin to describe your conduct.

 

Second.

How can the Conservative Party expect be taken seriously as the “government in waiting” when they can’t even run their own leadership contest without turning it into a total disaster?

 

I’ll get back to that question in a moment.

First, I want to walk through how I spent my Sunday morning.

At 11:30am, I sent an email to my Conservative EDA’s mailing list (I’m the Comms Director) with links to watch the results as they were announced, beginning at 3pm Pacific time. (Although I may not be after tomorrow night’s board meeting given this commentary!)

Then, as 3pm approached, the Party announced the results would be “a little late.”

So I sent an email update to let people know about the delay.

I added links to some of the live coverage streaming on the web, including Rebel Media, True North News and all the major networks.

As the delays continued, I sent out more updates to our membership.

Then I sent out another update.

And another.

Then I gave up on sending updates because the Conservative Party’s incompetence was simply too embarrassing to distribute any further.

At 9:00 pm, six hours after the announcement was scheduled to begin, there was still no news about when the announcement might be made.

There wasn’t even a hint of when the announcement might happen.

That’s pathetic.

I’m hard on the Conservative Party HQ’s Communications Team, but I’m hard on them for a valid reason.

They are complete and utter failures at communicating.

These folks need to brush up on three simple rules of communication.

  1. People will tolerate pretty much anything if you are open and transparent about it, so…
  2. Explain what caused the delay and when you expect the problem to be resolved.
  3. If (and in this case, when) your original estimate is no longer valid, see Rule #2. Repeat as required.

Anything, literally ANYTHING would be better than the pathetic “Starting Soon” graphic shown for hours on the Conservative Party’s YouTube channel and the Cone of Silence placed over the entire debacle.

Now, back to my question.

How can the Conservative Party be taken seriously as the “government in waiting” when they can’t even run their own leadership contest without turning it into a total disaster?

The short answer is simple.

They can’t.

The long answer is far more damaging for the Conservative Party.

What Moron Leaves Counting the Ballots to the Last Second?

Ballots began arriving at the Ottawa office a month ago.

I fully comprehend it takes time to validate each ballot, then stack them into plastic bins so they can be counted later.

Here’s what I don’t comprehend.

Once ballots were validated, why were they left in a storage room until the morning of the announcement?

Why did counting not begin on Friday night, as soon as the deadline passed?

Or even Saturday morning?

Why leave this critical task to the last second?

The Party knew they had record voter turnout. I know they knew because Cory Hann crowed about the record-breaking voter turnout in an email he sent on August 19th, four days before the scheduled announcement.

Then, when the train fell off the rails, they attempted to blame that same record-breaking voter turnout for the six-plus hours of delay.

So I ask you, CPC HQ, who is the moron who decided NOT to begin counting ballots until the last minute?

Whoever he or she is, fire them immediately, loudly and publicly and, while you’re at it, toss in the sincerest apology you can muster and beg for forgiveness.

This is the very least you should do.

 

Once the deadline for ballots to arrive passed (Friday at 5pm Eastern), I can’t think of a single, rational reason why counting could not and should not begin immediately.

Clearly, smarter folks than me are in charge of the Conservative Party, and those supposedly smart folks completely bungled this event.

My friends in Ontario gave up and went to bed.

I can’t blame them. After a six-hour delay and no sign of an announcement in sight, seriously, why stay awake?

If it wasn’t for the irreverence and hilarity of Ezra Levant and Sheila Gunn Reid on the Rebel Media YouTube channel, I would have done something far more productive with my time, too.

But they were hilarious.

So I kept watching.

And I kept laughing.

And while I was at it, I wrote this commentary.

Eventually, or should I say finally, the first round results were announced.

Then another long delay with more empty air time on national television and another squandered opportunity by the Conservative Party.

Through it all, I wondered why the Conservative Party refused to lift a finger to ease the embarrassment of their own making when 121 Conservative Members of Parliament were available to fill those hours of airtime.

The smart people in CPC HQ clearly know better than mere citizens like me.

Seriously.

What could 121 Conservative MPs possibly discuss in six hours of otherwise dead air on national television?

The Conservative Party’s National Comms Team couldn’t think of a single thing.

 

 


 

So, if you’re reading this, I have a favour to ask.

Please let me know your thoughts on the absolute sh*t show the Conservative Party put on last night.

I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below.

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Comments

  1. Michael Vinnins says

    August 24, 2020 at 5:33 am

    You’re absolutely correct. It was embarrassing and totally unnecessary.

    Reply
  2. Jim Pook says

    August 24, 2020 at 6:11 am

    Christopher:

    I understand your frustration – I was watching this also… except from 8:43 PM to 9:45 PM when Shaw.ca had a total outage: Internet, phone and TV.

    As for the ballots being put into a “storage room”, they were actually put into a vault.

    As I see it, reason for not counting on Friday/Saturday – to prevent the release of info before the Sunday event. How do you prevent some scrutineer from talking to the media or his campaign team before the event?

    Sure, it could have been done better, but I’m not going to jump on volunteers who have worked hard, if not perfectly. But let’s learn from our mistakes and work to prevent repeating them in the future.

    Reply
  3. Don says

    August 24, 2020 at 6:48 am

    What is really hilarious is that on ‘deadline day’ I was still getting calls offering ‘help in filling out the ballot.’ Is the CPC filled with the US Republicans equivalent of ‘RINOs?’ Quite the opposite of the Wildrose leadership vote when Danielle Smith won handily in Alberta. The count was over an hour SOONER than they estimated because after half the counting was done, her opponent was trailing so badly he came out and conceded. It was so lop-sided that they never did release the actual count. However, we know how that finally ended with an NDP destroyer gaining government of Alberta after the sabotage of Ottawa’s infiltrator Prentice who took Alberta conservatives to an all-time low. A horror no matter how you look at it.

    Reply
  4. Dave Chappelle says

    August 24, 2020 at 6:49 am

    Embarrassing.

    Having witnessed Conartist mismanagement of vote counting, how many voters will conclude they’re better off with the current corrupt clown Lieberal prince?

    Reply
  5. Callie McHardy says

    August 24, 2020 at 7:40 am

    When the problem first arose, they indicated it would be sorted out shortly. Lisa Raitt did mention several times on CTV News that the issue was torn ballets, however, whoever was in charge of this fiasco needs another job.

    I did like Andrew Scheer’s speech. The part about following Post Millennial & True North certainly put CTV News on the defensive which was funny as hell!

    Reply
    • Christopher di Armani says

      August 24, 2020 at 9:31 am

      Hey Callie… “shortly” – at least in my world- is about five and a half hours short of six or more. 🙂

      Reply
  6. Robert says

    August 24, 2020 at 9:28 am

    It was embarrassing.

    I am from Ontario and did go to bed instead of suffering through that.

    Reply
  7. Lynn cournoyer says

    August 25, 2020 at 2:28 pm

    Makes me wonder what they were actually doing??? Counting or what?? Where did the other candidates come out of all this? What are the numbers for each candidate? Something smells fishy and it’s not liberals.

    Reply
    • Christopher di Armani says

      August 25, 2020 at 2:43 pm

      The official story I’m getting from Party insiders is the count can’t be started before the day of the announcement for fear of leaks. Even if I accept that excuse (I don’t), it does not explain why the Party was completely unprepared should something to go wrong (as it did) or why they refused to communicate anything beyond “soon” to Party members for over 6 hours. It was a failure at all three levels with zero accountability to voters. Sound familiar?

      Reply

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