Police alert over (British) vote-rigging

[Newsjock]

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,9174,1401369,00.html

Sandra Laville
Saturday January 29, 2005
The Guardian

Police forces throughout Britain will be warned to be on the alert for widespread electoral fraud in the run-up to the general election.

With several cases of alleged vote-rigging and fraud under investigation and fears that many more are going undetected, the Electoral Commission is pressing senior police officers to take the issue seriously.

... The government says there are very few prosecutions for electoral fraud, but the Guardian has established that criminal inquiries are under way in Reading, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire into allegations of theft of ballot papers, forged votes and personation, which involves filling in ballots in the absence of the voter.

Many inquiries involve allegations of organised vote-rigging on a huge scale during last June's local elections in ar eas where the government piloted all-postal ballots. Other cases involve traditional ballot box elections.

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[Pam-Moby]

1. It sounds like B*sh has been

helping the British out to show them how its done. HAHAHA

[twaddler01]

7. lololol

that was pretty funny :)

[AuntiBush]

2. Where were they when we needed them!?!

:cry:

[rigel99]

3. Lucky Bastards..

how come everyone in the world, commies from Russia, Turncoats from Britain, everyone but America investigates its elections...

I'm sitting on enough evidence in Georgia to sink Diebold's ship forever and I cannot even get an FBI investigation.. what the Fu***?

someone tell me what Red Bull and vodka induced coma our country is in?

Faulty Towers for Ever! I'm moving to friggin england...

[bling bling]

4. Those silly Brits.

If you want to get away with rigging elections the media needs to be on the State's payroll. Haven't you been paying attention to our country? Sheesh.

[burrowowl]

6. The BBC is

on the State's payroll. However, they are on a looser rein than PBS.

[burrowowl]

5. The UK's population re gov't

be it Labour or Tory is almost as ignorant as that of the U$.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Another great American tradition spread far and wide.

[Wabbajack]

9. Which party is doing it?

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Labour is the party I've heard accused

but that doesn't mean others aren't doing it too.