Overview
- A proposed class-action was filed in late June alleging a copy of Alberta’s list of electors covering about 2.9 million people was obtained and published by actors linked to the Centurion Project and a separatist network.
- The statement of claim names the Government of Alberta, Elections Alberta, Centurion Project Ltd., the Republican Party of Alberta, Centurion leader David Parker and other unnamed defendants and seeks damages and orders to retrieve and destroy the data.
- Elections Alberta says it traced the exposed database to a voter list provided to the Republican Party of Alberta and issued cease-and-desist letters before securing an emergency injunction on April 30 that led to the public site being taken down in early May.
- The RCMP, Elections Alberta and Alberta’s information and privacy commissioner are actively investigating the breach while the class action must still be certified by the Court of King’s Bench and the allegations remain unproven.
- The lawsuit highlights real safety risks for vulnerable people such as domestic-violence survivors, judges, health workers and journalists and could prompt legal and policy changes about how parties receive and safeguard official voter lists.