With just four days to go to the local elections, the Joseph Rowntree Trust has issued a report that asks many questions about the security of the UK postal voting system – more info here.
Many cases over the years have made the headlines about Electoral fraud, one case in Birmingham in 2005 showed that over 1,500 votes had been involved in postal fraud.
The judge at the subsequent trial said there was evidence of “massive, systematic and organised fraud” and that the campaign had made a mockery of the election. No one has been charged over this fraud!
In another case in Slough, Eshaq Khan was elected using fraudulent votes, subsequently four men have now been arrested and await charging with electoral fraud.
The UK Electoral Commission has repeatedly demanded tough laws to stamp out votes rigging and the even the Council of Europe has said that British elections had become “childishly simple” to rig – how embarrassing!.
I wonder if my postal vote is safe and will it count in the final tally? It seems that the UK has a lot to do before it can claim to have a more secure postal electoral voting system that some of the Third-World countries that it chooses to criticise.
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