1 March 2005 ~ Warmwell has been concerned about postal voting fraud ever since postal voting was introduced. Now we read in today's Times, "The Government has ruled out safeguards against rigging postal votes in the general election because time has run out, it emerged yesterday, as a court was told that Labour supporters forged 1,200 votes in a single council ward last June." Read Dominic Kennedy's article in full
Fraud fears as post replaces the ballot box
... All-postal voting could begin in next May’s local elections. ... Test case on future
of postal voting examines organised electoral fraud. By Dominic Kennedy ...
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... In March the electoral commission in a report on postal voting said: "Candidates,
agents and local party workers should not handle ballot papers.". ...
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... John Prescott is anxious for the referendum to go ahead by postal voting because
he sees it as the only chance of saving his plan for an England divided under ...
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... April 17 ~ Watchdog warns of postal voting fraud. ... Many more people around the country
will be voting by post for the local council elections on the same day. ...
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... Chartists on. This government persists with a scheme that will end in
all-postal voting, wide open to fraud and coercion. It gives ...
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... March 30 ~ Postal Voting (see democracy page) The move to extend the pilot scheme
to 14 million voters is against the advice of the Electoral Commission and ...
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... December 10 2004 ~ "The government has decided the Electoral Commission is wrong
to say there should be no more exclusive postal voting trials in Britain ...
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... North-West were shelved this summer, ostensibly over postal ballot problems but
effectively because Mr Prescott realised that both regions would vote down his ...
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... bells on Part Two.) The Bill was then approved by 286 votes to 138. ... Airlines, the
transport network, town halls and the postal service could also come under ...
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In Politix Archive October and November 2004
... troops in a major combat operation just as Americans were voting in their ... Having
raised concerns over the all postal ballots during the European Elections, and ...
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... eg Gordon Brown :"I believe that a `yes' vote in this ... October 12 2004 ~NE Referendum - "
a forced referendum by easily corruptible postal ballot on a non-issue ...
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... 13008,945520,00.html. Death of the secret ballot Postal voting does not revitalise
interest in elections - but it does encourage electoral fraud George Monbiot ...
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... "Postal voting does not revitalise interest in elections - but it does encourage
electoral fraud.." George Monbiot in the Guardian today " ....The emerging ...
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... It is against this that the commission's proposal yesterday, to increase postal
voting by relaxing the current rule that a countersigned statement of identity ...
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... that based on the evidence gathered in these pilots, and in particular the strength
of public criticism of a single voting method, all-postal voting should no ...
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