Although only the cases in Birmingham were brought before an electoral court (ahuh ... special procedure and part of the reason they happen so infrequently) I have seen many party-internal emails about similar issues in other places but which had insufficient evidence available to proceed with an action.
The scary thing with Birmingham, of course, is it wasn't a part of the all-postal 'experiment' and given that bribery of postal workers was also a part of these cases it makes one seriously worry about how bad those areas might have been ...
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Date: 2005-04-05 10:16 am (UTC)The scary thing with Birmingham, of course, is it wasn't a part of the all-postal 'experiment' and given that bribery of postal workers was also a part of these cases it makes one seriously worry about how bad those areas might have been ...