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OTTAWA – Evidence of alleged dirty tricks to misdirect voters in the last federal election is mounting.

A former worker of a Thunder Bay, Ontario call centre that worked for the Conservatives in May’s election says she was instructed to tell people Elections Canada had changed their polling locations.

In a sworn affidavit, Annette Desgagne says she and her colleagues at Responsive Marketing Group grew suspicious when people questioned them about the new polling locations.

Desgagne says in the court document that she recalls one Winnipeg woman told her that the polling station address she gave her was over an hour away.

Desgagne says she was instructed to give people a phone number if they had further questions.

She says the woman told her she called that number, but it was a wrong number.

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Desgagne says her supervisors told her to just stick to the scripts when she voiced her concerns.

Desgagne’s affidavit, filed as part of a court action launched by the Council of Canadians, repeats most of the claims first reported by the Toronto Star in February.

The Tories have denied they were behind the calls.