郵政投票的欺詐是威脅到5月競選
對普遍欺騙的恐懼在地方選舉在5月在法官以後昨天被上升了說規則為郵政選票是致命地有缺陷的。
正義星期，在超過二百萬人民在地方理事會和市長的競選之前預計以郵寄投票，理查Mawrey， QC，認為郵政投票在要求時是「致死到民主過程」。
他說當前系統使「批發選舉欺騙容易和有益」并且指責了政客不以後行動通過醜聞。 他敦促範圍廣大的改革到應付腐敗的選舉法律。
他的評論來了，當他找到一位保守的委員有罪在表決索具上通過使用郵政選票在數百的名字「鬼魂選民」欺騙地增加到選舉記數器。 Eshaq Khan在泥沼，柏克夏被剝離了他的理事會位子，并且從藏品辦公室被取締了五年在被判有罪以後在腐敗行為上。
被突出的案件怎麼被設計的新的檢查滅绝郵政選票誤用由Khan的隊在一年繞過他們的介紹之內，使他去年獲取一個少量的位子從辛苦。
mawrey先生，在他的評斷在泥沼事例，結束： 「没有理由假設這是一個被隔绝的事件。 滾動充塞[包裝選民名冊與虛擬選民]幼稚地是簡單做和非常難查出。 要忽略可能性它是普遍，特別在地方選舉，是甚而駝鳥將藐視的政策」。
案件是窘態對大衛Cameron作為涉及一名保守的候選人的表決索具最嚴肅的事例。 2004年之後，在介入郵政選票的普遍選舉惡習被發現了在地方選舉期間在伯明翰，但Mawrey先生批評了所有英國的主要政黨為了不能介紹充分檢查。
競選院長在投票的欺騙昨晚爬上他們的對更加嚴厲的法律的需求引起在泥沼評斷以後。
選舉委員會在北愛爾蘭敦促政府注意它的電話介紹單獨註冊為所有選民相似與計劃過去幾年。
“We have been saying since 2003 that the current system of voter registration in Great Britain is not sufficiently secure and that a system of individual voter registration is needed to provide a secure foundation for both registration and postal voting,” a spokesman for the commission said yesterday.
The chief safeguard included in the Electoral Registration Act 2006 was to require people voting by post to sign a form and write their date of birth when returning their ballot paper, to be checked against the signature on their original request.
But the judge attacked the move as inadequate, saying council staff were untrained to match signatures and computers were unreliable, meaning bogus ballots still slipped through and some genuine votes were rejected.
Under individual registration all members of a household eligible to vote have to provide two sets of identification such as a signature and date of birth at the time they sign on to the electoral register. These have to match identifiers for both postal votes and those put in ballot boxes.
The Electoral Commission has sent 55,000 guides to “bobbies on the beat” giving the police advice on how to detect and prevent fraud. A fuller guide is being distributed to police chiefs and election officers next week.
Secret ballot
1872 Right to vote by secret ballot is introduced
2000 Postal voting on demand introduced with pilots in 32 areas
2003 More pilots to test alternative voting methods
2004 All-postal ballots in four regions for European elections, despite opposition from the Election Commission. The Times exposes widespread fraud
August 2004 Commission says all postal voting should not go ahead
April 2005 Richard Mawrey, QC, said electoral fraud in Birmingham would “disgrace a banana republic”
October 2005 Electoral Adminstration Bill with new safeguards introduced
May 2007 First elections using personal identifiers for postal votes
Have Your Say: Postal voting cheats are threat to May elections
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