Election result may be challenged over administrative errors

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Election result may be challenged over administrative errors

By Mark Pack | Fri 14th May 2010 - 10:20 am

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The Evening Standard reports:

Andrew Dismore is considering lodging an official petition after losing his Hendon seat by just 106 votes to Tory Matthew Offord.

He claims hundreds of would-be voters were prevented from casting their ballot because of failures by Barnet council to organise the election properly.

Mr Dismore, who has held the seat since 1997, claimed procedural and administrative errors by the council included: people queuing at 9pm being told to leave as they would not get in to vote in time; postal votes arriving late or not being sent, and wrong directions to polling stations being given.

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5 Comments

Harley 14th May '10 - 10:23am

Well, good luck to him.
Pravin Jeyaraj 14th May '10 - 10:31am

What’s happened to the Electoral Society’s inquiry?
Huw 14th May '10 - 10:39am

He won’t want to come across as a bad loser – remember Winchester 1997!
The Futility Monster 14th May '10 - 10:51am

Oh dear. Andrew Dismal clearly wants to lose his seat by 100x the majority he did on May 6th.
Simon Titley 14th May '10 - 2:36pm

Is this what you get with an EasyJet council?