djm4_lj | (no subject)

The UK follows the US's lead in making voting fraud easier. Or one more reason why I won't be voting Labour, no matter how scared I am of a Michael Howard government (*). It's not the fact that the fraud was perpetrated by Labour in this case - as the article rightly points out, "other experts say the fraud is not confined to particular communities, or to Birmingham, or to the Labour Party" - it's the fact that it was Labour who brought in the rules to allow more people to vote by post, without any of the safeguards that such a move needs.

My freedom is not safe in the hands of these people.

Edit: (*) for the record, I'll be voting Lib Dem unless something very unexpected happens between now and then. But I'm expecting the 'anyone but Michael Howard' campaign to do a similar thing to the 'anyone but Bush' one in the US, and try to persuade people that voting for any aprty other than Labour is effectively a vote for the Tories. Which may have some validity, but tough.

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It only really works with tiny parties: you can see who cast a particular vote much more easily than finding out how a particular someone voted. In the former, you've got the ballot paper + reference no and it's a quick search to find out whose it is, but in the latter, you've got an awful lot of ballot papers to look through to find the right one...

It was done to help convict a Tory owner of an old people's home who got proxy votes for some of hir residents without bothering to ask them about it though.