Scam Messages Giving Wrong Polling Info

The automated voice messages have been reported across the country, but it's not known who's behind them.

Automated phone messages alleging to be from Elections Canada have told voters in a few battleground ridings to cast their ballots at polling stations that do not exist, the elections watchdog confirmed today. Elections Canada received most of its complaints about the misleading messages from ridings in the Ontario cities of Guelph and Kitchener-Waterloo, but reports have also cited complaints originating in Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, St. John's, Winnipeg, and Victoria. It is unknown who is behind the messages, which claim to be from Elections Canada and tell the listener, in both official languages, bien sur, that their polling station has been changed at the last minute. None of the given addresses are hosting polling stations.