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Lib Dem cleared of postal vote fraud allegations

By Mark Pack | Thu 21st May 2009 - 11:27 am

Welcome news from Birmingham regarding postal votes (not a phrase I’ve often typed…):

A former Liberal Democrat candidate has been cleared of forging 12 postal votes application forms.

It had been alleged that Mohammed Khan, who stood for election in the Nechells area in the 2006 local elections, was involved in the fraud in order to further his own election prospects. (Birmingham Post)

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Tony Greaves writes… Abolish postal voting on demand

By Tony Greaves | Tue 19th May 2009 - 11:25 am

I want to abolish postal voting on demand, which was introduced in 2000 with the best of intentions. It has proved to be wide open to electoral fraud, corruption and fiddling, and is a thoroughly bad thing.

Ministers have talked about the “convenience” of voting. This is the word the Government used in the Electoral Administration Bill in 2006, when I was ploughing the same furrow. They talked about convenience and increasing turnout. Unfortunately there are unintended consequences, many of which are unavoidable.

The Electoral Commission report in August 2004, following the last European election – Delivering Democracy? The Future of …

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Postal vote fraud allegations against Bradford Conservatives come to court

By Mark Pack | Thu 15th January 2009 - 9:34 am

The trial, expected to last around 10 weeks, of six people over allegations of postal vote fraud intended to help the 2005 Conservative general election campaign in Bradford West started yesterday.

Haroon Rashid, the general election candidate, and five others are on trial. A seventh person, the former deputy chairman for finance in the local Conservative association Alyas Khan, has pleaded guilty.

As The Times reports:

Tory activists in a marginal seat hatched a postal ballot fraud in an attempt to rig the voting system at the last general election, a court was told yesterday.

Their “well-organised attempt to subvert the democratic process” involved

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