Sentences with phrase «postal vote fraud»

This month, Sir John Holmes, the chair of the Electoral Commission, said requiring photographic ID was vital if the government was to stamp out postal vote fraud.

Who wilfully facilitated massive postal vote fraud?

11.25 am: Police are investigating allegations of postal voting fraud in Tower Hamlets, east London, following a last - minute flood of applications.

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There have been cases of electoral fraud with postal votes in the UK (including at the 2004 European and local government elections in Birmingham).

The prime minister has committed «seven mortal sins» that have degraded politics, Sir Alistair continued, including; the cash for honours scandal, his alleged disregard for cabinet government, the «shocking political interferenace» in the fraud investigation of BAE's arms deal in Saudi Arabia, his dismissal of concerns over postal voting, the handling of investigations in ministerial disconduct, an «undue reliance on spin», and «politicising» the civil service.

Writing in the Independent, the Ukip leader says Labour's dominance of northern England «has resulted in the emergence of a postal vote system rife with fraud and intimidation».

Nigel Farage has claimed Labour have overseen the emergence of a fraud - ridden postal voting system in northern English constituencies «which would not be out of place in a country like Zimbabwe».

Measures introduced to modernise the electoral system, such as postal and electronic voting, have caused an increase in convictions for electoral fraud have led to greater vulnerability generally.

A judgment was issued in which the judge noted that there was potential for fourteen types of fraud connected with postal voting and that these were utilized in the Birmingham Council elections where there was systematic large - scale rigging of postal votes to which the police had only marginally responded, despite being forewarned by some of the candidates that the election was going to be subject to fraudulent practices.

There have been numerous allegations of fraud through the postal vote system in England and Wales.