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The Federal Court Judge in the so-called "robocall" case officially dismissed the applicants' case.

That means he did not order new elections in the six contested ridings.

Judge Richard Mosley reasoned that although "electoral fraud occurred" during the last General Election, he was not convinced "the fraud affected the outcomes in the subject ridings."

In other words, the Conservatives got off by the skin of their teeth.

Now they're crowing that they were vindicated.

The Conservatives were not vindicated, however, as anyone reading the full judgment could see.

In my last post, I noted that the Conservative Party admitted it was behind recent misleading robocalls in Saskatchewan only after being confronted by forensic evidence linking it to the calls.

When confronted with the facts, the Prime Minister made this claim:

"There is no violation of the CRTC rules, in this case, unlike what the Liberal party did in a very different case …"

OTTAWA – Today, Democracy Watch called on the federal Conservatives to introduce the bill to ban false election robocalls and strengthen election law enforcement that they promised to introduce by the end of September under a resolution passed unanimously last March by federal politicians.

Democracy Watch's national letter-writing and petition drive has resulted in more than 56,000 messages being sent to politicians across Canada calling on them to pass effective laws to stop election fraud robocalls, and to strengthen enforcement of election laws.

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OTTAWA - This week, Democracy Watch made public what it believes is a legally incorrect ruling by the Commissioner of Canada Elections on a recent complaint. Democracy Watch received the ruling from the person who filed the complaint. In the ruling, the Commissioner refused to investigate the complaint based upon a much too narrow and restrictive interpretation of a key measure in the Canada Elections Act that prohibits influence of voters by foreigners.