Saturday, August 30, 2008

How Credible is howdtheyvote.ca?

A while ago, someone started up a site called How'd They Vote, to track the voting of our parliamentarians on various bills and motions before the House of Commons.

When I was researching my last post, I went there to check on Harper's voting record on C-484 and found nothing. It was as if any record of C-484 had been expunged from their database...which is very strange considering when I wrote this piece, it was there.

It seems strange indeed that Bill C-484 would have vanished utterly when other Private Member's business is clearly still in the database - including other bills that the house voted on March 5, 2008.

I'm afraid this sudden omission raises serious questions in my mind about the usefulness of 'howdtheyvote' as a credible source of information.

2 comments:

evilscientist said...

There is a link to the official record for the bill from howdtheyvote.ca which does list Harper as voting in favor.

ShadowPages said...

What bugs me is that the MP records are clearly incomplete and inconsistent with reality.

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