Richmond News
Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie seemed to be fending off both his left flank and right flank at Monday night’s city council meeting.
On the one hand, in a discussion about disinformation during elections, he challenged Coun. Carol Day – on his left – who claimed people had voted multiple times in elections.
On the other hand, he didn’t understand why some councillors – on his right – didn’t support a motion to fight disinformation during elections.
Day seemed to back-track on her statement that “all sorts of crazy things happen” during elections like “people voting multiple times,” after Coun. Kash Heed said this was “new information” to him.
“I’ve just heard stories in the past, especially with federal elections, where busloads of people were brought in to vote for a candidate because they wanted a particular candidate to get elected … to be a certain party candidate for that election,” Day clarified.
Brodie responded by saying she should “be precise” about what she’s talking about.
“That really was an inflammatory remark,” he said, noting she was talking about the federal and provincial nomination process. …