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[djm4_lj]

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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[vampwillow]

indeed. I'm a would-be politician!

seriously though, many people are bored by and anti the whole "democracy" thing and think it makes no difference (even though it eriously does). Arguably, it is local elections not national elections that make most difference to us as individuals, but that gets even fewer people motivated.

I've had a permanent postal vote for nearly 16 years, originally because of work taking me away from home at short notice. To my mind, "I can't be bothered to go to the polling booth in my sub-ward" should not be a valid reason for a postal vote.