10 Comments

• Richard 30th Apr '10 - 4:36pm

  Postal voting should only be restricted to those who can’t physically get to a polling station.

• Silent Hunter 30th Apr '10 - 4:55pm

  Here we go . . . The Labour Party’s Postal Votes Scam swings into action; as predicted.

  I hope the Lib Dems (& indeed, the Tories) are on the look out for this corruption – Labour will stop at nothing to retain power.

• Andrew Suffield 30th Apr '10 - 4:56pm

  Sadly, postal voting is actually more secure and experiences less fraud than polling stations in the UK.

  This is more a reflection on how bad our polling stations are than how good our postal vote system is. It pretty much comes down to who the returning officer is in your district. Many of them are careful and chase down all the issues; others just want to go home and will let people get away with anything. There seems to be remarkably little oversight of them.

  Fortunately, we’ve never had a major issue with electoral fraud in the UK. Unfortunately, we’re not very well equipped to deal with one.

• Jo 30th Apr '10 - 5:04pm

  Labour are v. corrupt in Bethnal Green and Bow. Postal votes are sold to the highest bidder (i.e. Labour)

• Jo 30th Apr '10 - 5:06pm

  I’ve also seen Respect volunteers rounding up Bengali students (who can vote) for their postal vote. So this protesting by Galloway is a bit hypocritical.

• Foregone Conclusion 30th Apr '10 - 5:12pm

  Galloway? Hypocritical? I would never have thought it!

• Tony Greaves 30th Apr '10 - 5:21pm

  This is baloney balderdash and similar words. Not to say there isn’t any fraud at polling stations, but postal voting is almost completely insecure.

  Tony Greaves

• Alec 30th Apr '10 - 7:11pm

  Whatever Galloway is, he is not ignorant of electoral law.

  The H-word can reasonably be asked here where, right after alleging that he and friends were the victims of a Police cavalry charge, he calls upon Police to detain two men of Middle Eastern appearance within the centre of the British establishment.

• Niklas Smith 30th Apr '10 - 8:20pm

  Meanwhile in Blackburn…

  …Jack Straw has been reported to police for “treating” voters: http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2010/04/jack_straw_face.html

• Alec 30th Apr '10 - 8:32pm

  Jack Straw is guilty of the criminal offence of treating

  Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, Craig! Whatever happened to “innocent until proven guilty”?

  The evidence against Straw is overwhelming. Free food was given to hundreds of Blackburn Muslim voters at a rally in his constituency on Sunday 25 April 2010.

  I speak as someone whose blog was, at one point, Salim Mulla [1] Watch, but is there any evidence for a Tammany Hall type affair, or is the Alan Partridge of human rights advocacy doing a little bit of projection?

  [1] A bigwig in the local Labour Party scene.