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Seventy per cent of ballots will already be cast when NDP leadership convention begins Friday

NDP MP and cadidate Paul Dewar's team has rented space at the Toronto Convention Centre to establish a phone bank to contact New Democrats who will be voting from Friday evening onward. 'This week for us is all get out the vote,' Joe Cressy says.

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NDP MP Paul Dewar will set up phone banks to contact voters during his party's leadership campaign.

PARLIAMENT HILL—More than two-thirds of NDP members voting to select a new leader later this week will have cast their votes either by mail or online by the time the first ballot at the party’s leadership convention begins on Friday in Toronto, candidate officials say.

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Seventy per cent of ballots will already be cast when NDP leadership convention begins Friday

NDP MP and cadidate Paul Dewar's team has rented space at the Toronto Convention Centre to establish a phone bank to contact New Democrats who will be voting from Friday evening onward. 'This week for us is all get out the vote,' Joe Cressy says.

The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright
NDP MP Paul Dewar will set up phone banks to contact voters during his party's leadership campaign.

PARLIAMENT HILL—More than two-thirds of NDP members voting to select a new leader later this week will have cast their votes either by mail or online by the time the first ballot at the party’s leadership convention begins on Friday in Toronto, candidate officials say.

  

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