Nelson

Busted! A BC NDP @bcndp volunteer was filmed at night outside a Surrey-Guildford advance polling station bringing a busload of roughly 30 to 40 people from Night and Day Recovery Society, a recovery home for addicts run by founder and director Amrit Singh Rai, many of them without identification. The volunteer was heard encouraging them to vote NDP right near the entrance, which is illegal under the Election Act’s 100-metre rule against soliciting or influencing votes at a voting place. They relied on the vouching system that lets someone without ID simply declare they are a Canadian citizen and BC resident while another person vouches for them. Rai has said the centre only gives rides when residents ask and does not tell anyone how to vote. The same riding saw NDP MLA Garry Begg @GarryBeggBC win by just 22 votes in 2024 over Conservative Honveer Singh Randhawa after allegations that non-residents voted, people voted under similar names, and residents at Argyll Lodge, managed by Baljit Kandola, were given mail-in ballots and directed how to mark them even though some could not read English or knew an election was happening. Those claims were investigated and the court petition was dropped with no finding of deliberate fraud, yet the NDP held the seat. The man shown in the dark jacket in the video has not been named.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​