Vote Rigging

[Khandro]

Isn't this scandalous? and exactly what Nigel Farage (and I !) have been saying, now it's official;

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/699204/police-vote-rigging-muslim-communities-eric-pickles-luftur-rahman-tower-hamlets-report

[jourdain2]

No, EDDIE, an Electoral Officer would be appointed from the Local Authority to have responsibility for Hospitals, Care Homes etc. in the vicinity. :)

[EDDIE51]

You wrote ''Postal votes should be severely restricted , as they used to be. Hospitals could have a responsible person to collect and check them''
That suggests hospitals should collect and check all postal votes.
Postal voting was made an option for anyone who asked for it. The intention being to increase the % of the population who bothered to vote. It has brought a few problems but the overwhelming majority of postal votes were correctly used, including by many AB members.

[EDDIE51]

^^ Every constituency already has electoral officers whose job it is to ensure all elections follow the rules of law, this includes the law relating to postal votes. The structure is already there it just needs to be more vigilant.

[Khandro]

Eddie; There is no accusation that the law has been broken, just that the system is being abused when individuals register everyone eligible in their community, some of whom are elderly and illiterate, young people with no knowledge of politics or the issues involved and instruct them how to vote, collect them all up in boxes and deliver them to polling stations.
This is a sad and sinister distortion of democracy, as the report points out.