Conservatives Acknowledge Vote Suppression

Sometimes confess and avoid works. Especially where liability is inevitable. Note, a Saturday release minimizes impact:

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OTTAWA—Canada's Conservative government said Saturday there appeared to have been deliberate and illegal efforts to suppress votes in one constituency during last year's national election, though a spokesman didn't say whether the party now thought members, or those working for them, were responsible.

Canada's election agency is probing allegations that some Canadian voters were misled about the location of polling places by automated phone calls, or robocalls, during an election in May 2011. Opposition politicians have accused the Conservatives of an orchestrated attempt at suppressing votes, a charge the party has denied.

The comments by Dean Del Mastro, a Conservative legislator and the main government spokesman for the controversy, marked the first time the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has acknowledged there may have been specific wrongdoing.