Going Postal Voting

At the end of my post about Kerry McCarthy’s unfortunate tweeting incident last week, I included some bits about postal voting fraud.

It wouldn’t be election time if there was no consternation about postal voting.

And here it is…

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Officials report a flood of postal vote applications in marginal seats. With the outcome of the closest election in a generation hanging in the balance, a few thousand ‘stolen’ votes there could determine who wins the keys to Downing Street.

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The Metropolitan Police are examining 28 claims of major abuses across 12 boroughs – with four separate investigations in Tower Hamlets, East London.

Labour supporters stand accused of packing the electoral roll at the last minute with relatives living overseas or simply inventing phantom voters.

Officials in Tower Hamlets received 5,166 new registrations just before the April 20 deadline, and there has been no time to check them all.

In Bethnal Green, it is feared the electoral register has been deliberately stacked with fictitious names.

And with echoes of this post from 2009:

The Mail’s Richard Kay has learned that for the first time ever the Commonwealth is dispatching a group of election monitors – more used to supervising banana republics – to scrutinise the results on Thursday.

What it is to remember living in a first world country.

AJ

UPDATE: CF has more on correlations between accusations of postal fraud, and Labour seats.

Also, a reporter from the Independent was attacked by a gang of Asian lads while investigating this, in the Bow constituency.

UPDATE 2: One should always check the facts with The Daily Mash.