Postal voting

The Times reports that "Fears of widespread fraud in the local elections in May were raised yesterday after a judge said that the rules for postal ballots were fatally flawed.

Just weeks before more than two million people are expected to vote by post in local council and mayoral elections, Richard Mawrey, QC, said that postal voting on demand was “lethal to the democratic process”.

He said that the current system made “wholesale electoral fraud both easy and profitable” and accused politicians of failing to act after past scandals. He urged sweeping reforms to electoral law dealing with corruption."

Now why would Labour be so cavalier over the use of postal voting on demand? Might one think that it is because they hope to benefit from "head of household" control of voting? One might think that, I couldn't possibly comment.