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Unethical actions during last year’s federal election may not have been limited to fraudulent phone calls.

Hundreds of unregistered voters in the Toronto-area riding of Eglinton-Lawrence got on the voters list in violation of Elections Canada rules, the CBC has reported.

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Former Liberal MP Joe Volpe was challenged in that riding by Conservative Joe Oliver, who won by 4,062 votes and is now the minister of natural resources.

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CBC says there was a late influx of unregistered voters, who got to vote without providing an address in riding as required by Elections Canada rules. CBC says it discovered at least 2,700 applications for late registration to vote that failed to provide addresses, or gave false or non-residential addresses.

Volpe’s lawyer Tony Pascale told CBC he wants Elections Canada to revisit the riding. “There were an inordinately high number of voters registering who were not on the voters list in order to cast ballots,” he said.