Conservative candidate Pierre Poilievre speaks as Green Party candidate Ashley MacDonald, left, and Liberal candidate Darcy Spady, right, listen during the Battle River-Crowfoot by-election forum in Camrose, on Tuesday.JASON FRANSON/The Canadian Press

Once upon a time, the Longest Ballot Committee was in league with the Rhinoceros Party, putting forward a 2019 campaign to get into the Guinness Book of World Record for the longest ballot ever.

Fat chance. The Guinness Book lists the record at 1,187 candidates who ran in the Prague municipal elections in 1994. The 2019 Longest Ballot Committee effort got caught in rules and didn’t get very far, anyway.

And the current campaign – which has placed more than 200 candidates on the ballot for the Aug. 18 by-election in Battle River-Crowfoot, where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is seeking to return to the Commons – hasn’t even come close to the record.

And now it seems that the Longest Ballot Committee folks are no longer affiliated with the Rhinos, who were once the merry........

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