Elections Alberta Investigating Provincial Elector List Published by Separatist Activists

Carrie Tait and Chen Wang, the Globe and Mail: Alberta’s separatist campaign has access to personal information belonging to 2.9 million residents, data that closely resembles the province’s most recent list of electors, raising questions about a potential breach of privacy and violation of election laws. The already sanctioned organization behind this claims all this data is from public sources, but Elections Alberta is convinced it is a genuine elector list used illegally. Wallis Snowdon, CBC News: Court heard that an Elections Alberta investigation examined the public, searchable database and determined the list was legitimately provided to the Republican Party of Alberta, a provincial party founded in 2022 that supports Alberta independence. […] Court heard that each electoral list legitimately released by Elections Alberta includes a certain number of fictitious — or “salted” — names. These unique entries on each electoral list allow investigators to trace each dataset back to…