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Did the robocalls affect the federal election results?

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The RCMP executed a search warrant at the offices of Racknine, the Edmonton call centre implicated in the robocalls scandal, as police investigate allegations of election fraud.

 Are the results of the last election tainted? (Canadian Press)The Liberals and NDP say voters in at least 38 ridings received calls telling them that the location of their voting station had changed.

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre told Evan Solomon, host of CBC's Power & Politics, on Monday that the party has identified 15 ridings in which Conservative supporters got "troubling" calls. Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says her B.C. riding was also targeted.

Interim NDP Leader Nycole Turmel said the calls were all "about trying to stop people from voting, whatever the technology."

"Fixing elections means that byelections could be called. People could end up in jail," she said.

Former Liberal MP Anthony Rota, who lost his bid for a fourth term in the Ontario riding of Nipissing-Timiskaming by 18 votes, says voter suppression tactics could have cost him the election.

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