Europe watchdog sees British voting system open to fraud

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: Reuters

Britain introduced new laws in 2006 to combat postal vote fraud after a probe found local members of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party had conducted massive vote-rigging in a local election in Birmingham.
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"The crucial weakness of the household registration system is that it precludes the registration of personal identifiers," the report said.

"This, in combination with the absence of any form of civil registry makes it childishly simple to register bogus voters on the voters' list."

"Postal voting then provided the anonymity to carry out fraud without detection," the committee added.

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In some ways, it's amazing there hasn't been far more fraud than apparently has happened. Pretty much anyone could give themselves an extra vote or 2 just by making up the name of someone living at their address. If they made them old enough, they wouldn't even run the risk of the bogus person being called for jury service. Only the addresses with infeasible numbers of adults claimed to be living there have been caught, I think.