Oldham named as 'election fraud' hotspot per Manchester Evening News

From 2014, don't say we weren't warned.

'Oldham was today named by voting watchdogs as one of 16 council areas 'at risk' of election fraud.

The Electoral Commission called for all voters to be required to show photographic proof of their identity at polling stations.

In a new report to combat 'ballot and vote-rigging', the influential commission called for rules and security to be tightened at polling stations and surrounding postal voting to restore trust in the electoral system.'

More here http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/oldham-named-election-fraud-hotspot-6479987 but not at the BBC where Labour victories are more important than democracy. 

It's not just postal voting and disproportionate sized constituencies, the whole electoral system is badly flawed. The British population is no longer, if it ever was, largely constituted of English gentlemen who would never cheat. We need more checks on voters eligibility. I'd also like a move to only taxpayers or former taxpayers having the vote, but I realise that's not going to happen...

What a strange comment in the BBC's reporting on the Oldham West by election.

' UKIP blames the postal vote and the number of Asian voters who use it. But that's the system the party is up against.'

Can you imagine the BBC's horror if a party other than their Labour Party benefitted from an electoral system 'quirk'?  

The BBC went almost apoplectic during the last parliament when boundary changes to make voting fairer were proposed and were triumphant when the Lib Dems broke an agreement and voted them down. The failure to move to newer fairer constituency boundaries was meant to be the key factor in Britain electing a majority Labour government and the BBC were joyous at the prospect.
 

Unfortunately, for the BBC, not the country, despite the unchanged constituency boundaries penalising the Conservative party, the Conservatives still won the general election in May.

So here the BBC acknowledge a polling issue but as it works for the Labour Party and against the hated UKIP, the comment is 'that's the system the party is up against.'

Democracy is less important than working for a Labour government?

More here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35003152

Rod Liddle says Oldham voters ready to ditch Labour for Ukip but that the Muslim vote may save Labour

'If one thing might keep the seat for Labour, it's the Muslim vote, which makes up more than a quarter of the constituency.

They all vote Labour, often by postal vote, whether they like it or not (allegedly).

A large proportion probably don't know there is an election, as they don't speak English.

But the majority will still vote Labour, by postal vote. Even the leftie Guardian's Helen Pidd tweeted: 

"A dismaying number of voters I met in Oldham today can't speak English despite living there a decade or more. But they're voting Labour."'

More here at The Sun but obviously not on the vote Labour BBC.

George Galloway to challenge Bradford West election result per BBC News

The BBC report that Graceless George Galloway is challenging the Bradford West election result.

'Former MP George Galloway has announced he has started legal proceedings to challenge his general election defeat.

Mr Galloway, leader of the Respect Party, lost his Bradford West seat to Labour's Naz Shah, who he has alleged made "false statements" during the campaign to affect the result.

He also claimed "widespread malpractice" involving postal voting meant the result must be "set aside".A Labour spokesman said the action was "pathetic and without any foundation".'

George Galloway losing his seat was one of my personal highlights of election night, but if he is the means by which electoral fraud, especially around postal voting is finally recognised and tackled then so be it.

One step that David Cameron's new government could take to safeguard democracy in the UK would be to reduce the use of postal votes back to where it was prior to the last Labour government's meddling. Postal votes should be only for people too sick to make it to the polling station or those out of the country on that date. Everybody else should vote in person.

Asians bullied into postal vote fraud per The Times

The Times (£) reports the unsurprising news that:

 

'Asian voters are being intimidated into handing over their postal votes on a scale larger than the few arrests so far suggest, a former prosecutor has warned.

Nazir Afzal said that a form of feudal blackmail had been imported from south Asia with families facing retribution unless they voted for bullying candidates. Women and girls were being disenfranchised as households were being persuaded to hand over their ballot forms.'

What's most surprising about this news is that anyone is at all surprised. Still as this will benefit the Labour Party don't expect any BBC news coverage of this story.

 

One of the big news stories of this election will be the amount of vote rigging, a lot (but not all) via postal ballots. Don't expect any BBC outrage though.

Voter fraud is "funny" and "cool"?

According to this Democratic Party worker, Stephanie Caballero, Regional Field Director in Houston Texas, yes apparently it is...



Barack Obama and the Democratic Party want people to 'Vote Early'. Is that really only half of what they want? 'Vote early, vote often' as they said in Chicago some time ago.

Like elements of the Labour party in the UK, are the US Democratic (sic) party really not above trying to steal an election?

Worrying, very worrying re London Mayoral election - could Ken still win?

The London Mayoral election results look worrying. Latest figurees that I have seen show the following:

Constituency	Registered	Scanned	Verified	Adjudication status
Barnet & Camden	100%	92%	87%	In Progress
Bexley & Bromley	100%	100%	100%	Complete
Brent & Harrow	92%	68%	61%	In Progress
City & East	100%	100%	100%	Complete
Croydon & Sutton	100%	100%	100%	Complete
Ealing & Hillingdon	100%	100%	100%	Complete
Enfield & Haringey	99%	79%	71%	In Progress
Greenwich & Lewisham	100%	100%	100%	Complete
Havering & Redbridge	100%	100%	100%	Complete
Lambeth & Southwark	100%	100%	100%	Complete
Merton & Wandsworth	100%	100%	100%	Complete
North East	98%	87%	87%	In Progress
South West	100%	100%	99%	In Progress
West Central	100%	100%	100%	Complete

The boroughs who have completed counting are mostly pro-Boris and those still with part to count are mostly pro-Ken. This could get very tight and a cynic might wonder if some boroughs are holding back to see what number of votes Ken needs in order to win. The turnout and postal ballot figures could be very interesting in the aftermath of this election.

Now what is being suggested here by John Denham and Michael Crick?

So why would individual electoral registration be 'worse for Labour' let alone bad for labour? Do Labour benefit from weak electoral registration controls then? Who weakened the controls? Why did they do so? Should someone be held accountable?

How postal voting works

Paul Weston at Gates of Vienna explains how Labour's massive increase in the availability of postal voting works to their advantage and how it links with immigration from Pakistan. Here's a few extracts form an article that I doubt the BBC will ever reference:

'It is routine practice for dual-nationality Pakistanis residing in Kashmir to sign thousands of proxy vote forms for the British General Election, in order that their Pakistani brothers in Britain may use them to subvert our democracy.

One “British” Mirpuri resident described the blind signing of the electoral proxy votes thus:

“They said I didn’t have to fill in any details, just to sign my name at the bottom of the form,” he says, smiling. “So I signed two…I personally know 25 other people who did the same thing, lots of people just on this street, but everybody does it.”

Having collected thousands of forms, Pakistani politicians such as Sultan Chaudry hop on the Kashmiri red-eye to Britain, where they distribute said forms amongst the many Muslims in our vibrantly diverse, exotic and eclectic multicultural cities, whilst advising them where their fraudulent vote should be cast to best represent their decidedly un-diverse and un-vibrant 7th Century mono-culture.

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In 2004, Judge Richard Mawley QC presiding over an electoral vote-rigging case in Birmingham had this to say: “The (postal vote) system is wide open to massive, systematic and organised fraud that would disgrace a banana republic.”

Shortly before the 2010 election, the police were investigating upward of 50 cases of electoral fraud, principally in Labour-controlled areas. Since the election this number has climbed to 81 cases, but little has happened since, because the alleged fraudsters were invariably Muslim and the police are loath to prosecute for fear of appearing “racist.”

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Before the Labour Party came to power it was impossible to register to vote once the election had been called. Labour changed this to allow registration up to 11 days after the election was called. This time-frame allows people to register and vote before any checks to prove their existence can feasibly be carried out — which is exactly what was intended.

The result of this has been an upsurge in postal voting applications, sometimes up to 200% higher than in the previous election. In ex-Home Secretary Jack Straw’s constituency of Blackburn, postal voting was running at 30% of all votes cast compared to only 15% as a national average. In the month before the election, some half a million new “voters” registered with the Electoral Commission, representing an increase of almost one fifth since the election of 2005.

One voter of Pakistani origin, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals, told The Independent newspaper that postal vote fraud in Blackburn was widespread. “It’s worse than Birmingham, the mosque committee is 100 per cent Labour. They control the mosque. They frighten the people.” Teams of Muslims were seen distributing and collecting sheaves of postal ballot papers which were picked up on street corners en-route to the “sealed” ballot box.

This assertion is backed up by Craig Murray, Britain’s former ambassador to the central Asian republic of Uzbekistan, who was campaigning in Blackburn to unseat Jack Straw. The challenge was rather unsuccessful as it transpired because Mr Straw allegedly achieved 90% of the vote, a margin unheard of outside North Korea.

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Just in case these fraudulent postal ballots could be detected after the election, the Labour Party allowed them to be mixed in with the ballot papers from local polling stations, where, although identification is not required (why not?) at least faces are recognised and names crossed off a list. As such, any individual attempting to cast multiple ballots in a polling station would be quickly recognised and rumbled, so the vast majority of these ballots are therefore legitimate.

This is not the case of course for the postal voters, which is precisely why postal voting has experienced such a massive upsurge and precisely why Labour Party officials were so keen to lose the fraudulent postal ballots amongst the legitimate polling station ballots.

This destruction of British democracy, although appalling in itself, is not of the highest importance unless the fraud actually affected the election results, but now we learn that it has. In the May 2010 British General Election, the Conservative Party failed to gain a majority by the slimmest of margins, with only a handful of constituency seats swaying the result. This recently led Conservative Party Chairman, Baroness Warsi, to make the extraordinarily explosive claim that The Conservative Party failed to win a majority because of “Asian” electoral fraud.

Just before the election, ex- MP Martin Bell suggested that the result could be decided by electoral fraud. And so it has been proven. It is not a surprise that by importing the Third World you become the Third World, but what is surprising is our reaction to the very real subversion of our ancient and bloodily defended democracy — which is that of total appeasement and dhimmitude.

The idea that British democracy has been subverted by Socialist enabled Muslim fraud is an enormous front page story. Or it should be, yet having broken the potentially biggest story in Britain so far this century, Baroness Warsi and the press have become strangely reticent. Her appearance on BBC “Question Time” has been cancelled and the MSM, although not exactly in deep denial, are hardly giving this astonishing claim the attention it deserves.

Even liberals must be starting to realise why Islam, when translated, means Submission. If Muslims can illegally alter the course of a British General Election with barely a word of criticism or investigation — based on our fear of them — then we are in terrible, terrible trouble and that trouble can only become worse.'

Shocked? Angry? Convinced that David Cameron will do anything about this?

Democracy is not that important, according to the BBC

An odd line at the end of this BBC article headlined 'Election night vote chaos report to be published'. Apparently

'It is possible the problems might have affected the result in a few very marginal constituencies, but election re-runs are now considered very unlikely.'

Maybe the BBC could let us voters know which marginal eats may have been affected and whether Ed Balls' seat was one of them. Also if the result was wrong then why should there not be a re-run?

A banana republic?

The Telegraph reports that Jenny Watson, the chairman of the Electoral Commission has 'conceded that the results in many constituencies are likely to be challenged because of shambolic organisation which left thousands of people unable to vote.'

The whole country is a shambles after 13 years of Labour misrule and this general election may yet have some recounts based on dodgy postal votes, let alone the other voting problems.

What a mistake the UK made, or was the election stolen

What a night and how depressed am I!

However today I want to have a think about where I go from here and what really happened yesterday. The postal votes scandal seems to have two angles, first the excess of Labour votes that may have secured several seats, Glenda Jackson won her Hampstead seat by just 42 votes... The second angle is the number of people working overseas who were denied their vote, even the BBC have to report their stories. Another factor is how many seats were lost to the Conservatives by people voting UKIP. If there is another general election then the Conservatives need to come to an arrangement with UKIP over a referendum or whatever it takes.

I have a very bad feeling about this general election, how it was stolen and what it means for the future of the Conservative party in the UK.

My thoughts on proportional representation and how that could kill the Conservatiove party's chances of ever forming a government are well documented, but I will be re-thinking this over the coming weekend.

Posting will be light this weekend as I need a break...

Postal votes in Richmond

The Guardian are reporting that:

'Zac Goldsmith, the millionaire ecologist and Tory candidate hoping to take affluent Richmond Park from the Lib Dem incumbent Susan Kramer, has just arrived at the count at Richmond College looking tanned and relaxed.

But he may have a long wait. Originally the declaration was expected around 4am. But now we are being told that because of the high turnout there is unlikely to be a result before 5am, and quite possibly a lot longer after that.

The reason being given is that the returns on postal votes have been "phenomenal" to quote one source.

And all have to be verified before the count proper can start.'

The postal votes factor may well be the big story of this election and will need sorting before the next general election.

I get the feeling that postal voting could be the scandal that comes to dominate the news in coming weeks

I get the feeling that postal voting could be the scandal that comes to dominate the news in coming weeks, there is much to come out in the coming days.

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.

Postal voting fruad in the UK - 2005 style

Political Betting wrote in April 2005, before that year's general elaction this:

'The judge in the postal vote-rigging trial has strongly attacked the government’s attitude to the problem accusing minsters of being not only complacent, but “in denial” about the failings of the system.

According to BBC Online Richard Mawrey QC was speaking as he ruled there had been “widespread fraud” in six Birmingham council seats won last year by Labour and his comments come as more voters than ever are preparing to vote by post in the general election.

In 2001, 3.9% voted by post but this time about 15% of voters have asked for postal ballots for the poll expected on 5 May. Birmingham was not part of the postal-only experiment undertaken in some areas at the last local elections. Both the pro-Kashmir People’s Justice Party (PJP) and the Liberal Democrats claimed local Labour activists used forgery and deception to collect votes - something the candidates denied.

Sitting as an election commissioner, Mr Mawrey said that the system gave an “open invitation” to fraud and was “hopelessly insecure”. He noted that it “is wide open to fraud and any would-be political fraudster knows that it’s wide open to fraud”.

The judge said he regretted the government had dismissed recent warnings about the system’s failings as “scaremongering”. He pointed to a government statement which said: “The systems already in place to deal with the allegations of electoral fraud are clearly working.” Mr Mawrey said: “Anybody who has sat through the case I have just tried and listened to evidence of electoral fraud that would disgrace a banana republic would find this statement surprising.'

2005 was a picnic compared with 2010, there are Labour party activists who have been planning the stealing of this election for some time and they may well succeed.

Don't say I did not warn you

I have been warning for ages that elements within the Labour party are planning to steal this general election and their favourite tool, as trialled before is postal voting. This is London reports the unsurprising news that (my emphasis):

'POLICE are examining a series of claims of serious electoral fraud across London.

They are "assessing" 28 allegations, while an Evening Standard investigation has uncovered several examples of apparent irregularities in voting records in Tower Hamlets, where campaigners claim electoral fraud is taking place on an "alarming and widespread" scale.

Scotland Yard confirmed it is examining a number of complaints from residents and political groups in the borough. On a wider scale, police are looking at claims of electoral fraud in 12 boroughs but have yet to launch any criminal inquiries.

The Standard found some homes where up to 10 so-called "ghost voters" have been registered on the electoral roll without the knowledge or consent of the people who live there.

Politicians also claim activists working for local parties have been visiting homes and offering to post ballots on behalf of vulnerable residents. In other cases, it is alleged, candidates and activists have "assisted" residents in filling in their postal ballot papers.

Both practices - which can lead to vote tampering - are forbidden by the Electoral Commission code of conduct, signed up to by all the main parties.

The victims of the alleged fraud are usually Bangladeshi residents who speak little English. The Standard found two homes in Bethnal Green where, respectively, eight and 10 apparent ghost voters with Muslim names are registered for postal votes. In fact only five people live at the two properties and they know nothing of the 18 other people listed there.

At a house in Bow, 18 postal ballots were delivered yesterday but only 10 of the voters named live there. They say a Bengali-speaking man came to the door two weeks ago and told them they had to sign forms. Campaigners have raised suspicions about a further eight homes where 77 voters have been registered in recent months.

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A spokesman for the Electoral Commission said anyone suspecting postal vote irregularities must inform police, or the political parties whose members they suspect. A Tower Hamlets spokesman said: "We have done everything within our power to ensure the safety and security of postal votes.

"If there is an allegation of electoral fraud it has to be investigated by the police - the Returning Officer has no powers to investigate until after the election."'

Be under no illusions what the Standard has uncovered in parts of London is the very small tip of the iceberg. There will be postal voting fraud on a huge scale and almost all to the benefit of the Labour party. This election could very well be stolen by Labour and then there it will be too late for prosecutions, not that the police would investigate their re-elected Labour masters. However if the Conservatives do manage, against all the odds, to win the election then I suggest a full investigation of all voting fraud and special electoral courts to deal with the offenders. A suspension of voting rights for 20 years would seem to be a fitting punishment, although hanging until dead would be my personal suggestion.

"The Labour party has been warned by the Electoral Commission over its handling of postal vote applications "

The Guardian reports that:

"The Labour party has been warned by the Electoral Commission over its handling of postal vote applications after it investigated alleged irregularities in last year's Glasgow North East byelection.

The commission said an unusually high number of last minute postal vote applications were made in Glasgow North East, with 1,800 forms submitted less than three days before the registration deadline – more than a quarter of the total number received.

A spot check of 300 of those forms by the returning officer's staff found that in at least 100 cases these applications had been dated more than a week and in some cases over a month earlier.

Nearly half of the last-minute registrations came from Labour supporters, sparking allegations from the Scottish National party – first reported by The Guardian – that Labour had been deliberately hoarding postal votes to help its campaign.

In the event, Labour won by a landslide 8,111 votes, securing a 60% share of the vote and demolishing SNP hopes of a second victory in Labour's Glasgow heartland.

The commission said Labour "did not comply" with a code of conduct that requires political parties to hand in every postal vote application within two days of receiving them, and had been asked to honour those rules in future."

As I have said time and time again, some Labour party campaigners will be using the postal vote system to maximise the Labour vote; a very close eye will need to be kept on some Labour seats or the Florida 'hanging chads' will be as nothing...

Here's to 2010

The blogosphere seems almost full of predictions for 2010, including Iain Dale's ten predictions for what will happen and Letter From a Tory's 10 things that won't happen. So who am I to miss out?

Five political predictions for 2010:
1. Gordon Brown will continue to try and create spurious and contrived dividing lines with the Conservatives, the BBC will assist by pushing the dividing lines
2. The election will be held on May 6 (along with the local elections) because Labour cannot afford to run two campaigns and this way they will maximise their vote in the council elections
3. The pre-election leader's debates will produce a surprise win (in the view of opinion polls) for Gordon Brown
4. The pre-election leader's debates will produce an increase in support for the Lib Dems
5. Labour win the general election, postal votes being a key factor, and the protests about vote-rigging are dismissed as "losers' sour grapes"

Five economic predictions for 2010:
1. With a Labour victory at the general election (see above) the UK's credit rating will drop from AAA and the resultant rise in interest rates will produce the second half of the 'W shaped' recession
2. The re-election of a Labour government will mean that the exodus of bankers and other financial institutions to more financially friendly locations
3. The ever larger hole in the Treasury's tax receipts will mean that the higher rate of income tax rises to 60% and VAT to 20%
4. The Pound will reach parity with the Euro and the price for IMF and EU assistance for the "sick man of Europe" will be joining the Euro. Being at parity will make this an easier sell for Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson
5. Having dropped to around USD 1,100 at the end of 2009; gold will rise ever higher, reaching USD 1500 by the end of the 2010

Five BBC related predictions for 2010:
1. The BBC will become ever more blatantly biased in favour of the Labour party, the Conservatives won't realise how serious a problem this is
2. The tone of the BBC's leader's debate will be clearly pro-Labour, the Conservatives won't realise how serious a problem this is
3. The BBC will minimise their coverage of the postal voting scandal (see above), the Conservatives will finally realise how serious this BBC bias is but it will be too late
4. The BBC will continue to push for the withdrawal of British armed forces from Afghanistan
5. The BBC will continue to vilify Israel at every opportunity and revel in the coming further military attacks on Israel


More to follow...

X Factor - who cares about vote-rigging?

The Mail reports in the shocked manner that only The Mail can muster that:

"The results of The X Factor have been called into question by television bosses after its tightly controlled voting system was effectively hijacked.

Instead of paying for premium-rate calls, thousands of viewers are now voting ‘unofficially’ – and much more cheaply – for their favourite acts via a website.

Viewers who vote via the free2call.tv website pay for their calls by listening to a 15-second online advert – but in doing so circumvent all the security surrounding the official phone lines."

Frankly I don't care who wins X Factor, Jedward or anyone else, I have never watched X Factor and don't intend to start now. Simon Cowell has quite enough money if people don't realise that the purpose of the show is to fill Simon Cowell's bank account then more fool them.

Rather than The Mail bemoaning vote-rigging on the X Factor, maybe they could investigate vote-rigging in UK elections especially via the "postal vote" system; surely that is more vital the UK than a reality "talent" show?