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Tuesday 4 May 2010

Labour postal voting fraud, what happens when a journalist investigated



The Independent have the full story of the attack, and you should read it, but these commentaries I reproduce (my emphasis):
'So far Scotland Yard is looking into 28 allegations of bogus voter registration in London, although the Conservative and Respect parties both say they have highlighted many more. Concerns have been amplified by a flood of new voter registrations in the past few weeks in the run-up to the nationwide deadline on 20 April. Election officials in Tower Hamlets have removed 141 suspect ballots from the register but overall 5,166 new names were received before the deadline with little time to check their veracity.

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Tower Hamlets Council confirmed it had asked the police to investigate 10 cases of voter fraud in its area, but it revealed that 3,123 late applications have been received for postal votes and it has had too little time to properly check whether they are all genuine before the register closed.

That could open the poll in the two constituencies in Tower Hamlets – Bethnal Green and Bow and Poplar and Limehouse – to massive postal voter fraud. Respect is in a bitter fight to retain the highly marginal Bethnal Green seat – vacated by Respect MP George Galloway, who is standing in neighbouring Poplar and Limehouse – and, in an unprecedented development in British politics, all the candidates of the main parties are Bangladeshi Muslims.

The council said it would support calls to change the rules after Thursday's elections, to provide more time for checks to be carried out on late postal vote applications. "That could mean closing applications for postal votes at least four days before the normal voter registration process closes."'
That's it, tighten the rules after this general election...


Here's a Sky News report on a matter that the BBC will not be reporting any time this side of the general election...


The Mail reports that:
'Postal vote fraud: 50 criminal inquiries nationwide amid fears bogus voters could swing election

Voter fraud could determine the outcome of the general election as evidence emerges of massive postal vote rigging.

Police have launched 50 criminal inquiries nationwide amid widespread cases of electoral rolls being packed with ‘bogus’ voters.

Officials report a flood of postal vote applications in marginal seats. With the outcome of the closest election in a generation hanging in the balance, a few thousand ‘stolen’ votes there could determine who wins the keys to Downing Street.'


Meanwhile the BBC who are now in full campaigning mode try to reassure the public with this: 'Birmingham postal voting 'is now safer'


There are elements within the Labour party (and the BBC) who will stop at nothing to ensure that at worst the 'evil Tories' win with the smallest possible majority or at best Labour stay in power, with or without Lib Dem assistance. We were all warned in 2005 what was coming but it was not in the Labour government's interests to do anything about it and this Labour government has no interest in the British people just in power, control and money.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

It's time for a total rethink on postal voting as our democracy is turning into a third world sham.