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Vaughn Palmer: B.C. NDP leader sidesteps repeated questions about election timing

Opinion: Post-mortem on overlapping election in Saskatchewan in 2020 reported significant voter confusion

VICTORIA — NDP leader David Eby continues to insist that he caused no confusion, distraction or inconvenience with his decision to call a provincial election in the middle of municipal campaigns for almost 200 local governments.

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“The local candidate elections, as far as I can tell, are running just fine,” Eby said this week when asked about the overlapping campaigns. “They are going to have their election date and then we’ll have ours.”

But opinion polls have flagged the concern from the outset. And local government leaders and organizers........

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