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04/05/2010
Could Postal Vote Fraud Swing Election?
Police have launched criminal investigations into fraudulent postal votes.
50 criminal inquiries have been started 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 London Journalist, Jerome Taylor,has been kicked and beaten during his investigation into the voting fraud in East London.
Jerome Taylor of The Independent, filed a horrific account of his attack on the pages of the national daily newspaper, describing how during an investigation into voting fraud in Bow East London a group of "four or six" Asian youths believed to be Bengalis, set upon the journalist and began punching and kicking for over a minute until a member of the public intervened to stop the attack.
According to The Independent, Scotland Yard are looking into 28 allegations of bogus voter registration in London.
Anti-sleaze campaigner Martin Bell told the Daily Mail: "There is actually a possibility that the result of the election could be decided by electoral fraud. That’s pretty grim."
"We are facing a situation where we can no longer trust the integrity of our electoral system. It was a huge mistake to extend the postal vote. It opened up our system to all kinds of frauds," he added.
Out of a total estimated electorate of 46million, 7million have registered for postal votes.
(LB/GK)
50 criminal inquiries have been started 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 London Journalist, Jerome Taylor,has been kicked and beaten during his investigation into the voting fraud in East London.
Jerome Taylor of The Independent, filed a horrific account of his attack on the pages of the national daily newspaper, describing how during an investigation into voting fraud in Bow East London a group of "four or six" Asian youths believed to be Bengalis, set upon the journalist and began punching and kicking for over a minute until a member of the public intervened to stop the attack.
According to The Independent, Scotland Yard are looking into 28 allegations of bogus voter registration in London.
Anti-sleaze campaigner Martin Bell told the Daily Mail: "There is actually a possibility that the result of the election could be decided by electoral fraud. That’s pretty grim."
"We are facing a situation where we can no longer trust the integrity of our electoral system. It was a huge mistake to extend the postal vote. It opened up our system to all kinds of frauds," he added.
Out of a total estimated electorate of 46million, 7million have registered for postal votes.
(LB/GK)
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Concerns are rising that a dramatic increase in postal voting applications could lead to fraud in the next general election. A Guardian survey of twenty key marginal constituencies indicated that postal voting was “soaring”, with applications in some areas increasing by more than 300% since the last general election in 2001.
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Postal Strike vote ballot goes ahead
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