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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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you could vote lib dem??

You may like this news then (Labour candidate defects to Lib Dems because Labour is becoming too authoritarian)

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1344805.html

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 ...

The ballot papers seized by the police from the warehouse were handed over to election officials, who decided they had no reason to reject them and included them in the count.

*boggle*

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