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Elections are ‘vulnerable to fraud’
Monday 28th April 2008, 8:34AM BST.
Elections in this country fall short of international standards with the system vulnerable to fraud, a report by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust has claimed.
Measures to improve choice for voters – such as postal and electronic voting – are actually risking the integrity of the electoral process, it said.
The government says it has taken significant steps to protect the electoral process.
The report comes ahead of Thursday’s local elections in England and Wales.
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“Elections in this country fall short of international standards”
Another case of New Labours New Britain!!
Wait abit!…………
Could this be another load of spin so the Government can use the blame card to blame someone/something else after the local Elections?
It’s OK folks, the Government have made significant steps to protect the electoral…..LoL…. considering they would be the benefactors from the fraud.
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It has been proven that postal voting in immigrant communities is open to sustained abuse. Strange how they aspire to the order and fair play of our Country yet they are not prepared to follow our election principles.
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Significant steps to protect the electrol process. Is this the same government whose departments are continually losing our personal data while they caution us to beware identity theft. Please arrange the following… Brewery, in, a, up, ****,organise, couldn’t,a. Mugabe is fiddling the Zimbabwe vote…. could this have given our lot an idea ????
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