Council officials were bracing themselves for recounts and fraud allegations at Tower Hamlets last night, where detectives are investigating widespread vote-rigging claims. Police are also investigating allegations of intimidation and mishandling of ballot papers in Woking and mounting guard on polling stations in Birmingham after a Liberal Democrat councillor and his wife were arrested and bailed last week on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud. Surrey Police have sent uniformed patrols into county polling stations after a former Conservative councillor was jailed for four months for forging ballot papers in Guildford. Yesterday Peterborough, Lewisham and Brentwood councils piloted a scheme to ask voters at polling stations to sign for their ballot paper, but none of them compared signatures with anything else signed by the voter.
Friday, May 05, 2006
Postal Complaints Of Vote-Rigging May Herald Night Of Recounts
Council officials were bracing themselves for recounts and fraud allegations at Tower Hamlets last night, where detectives are investigating widespread vote-rigging claims. Police are also investigating allegations of intimidation and mishandling of ballot papers in Woking and mounting guard on polling stations in Birmingham after a Liberal Democrat councillor and his wife were arrested and bailed last week on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud. Surrey Police have sent uniformed patrols into county polling stations after a former Conservative councillor was jailed for four months for forging ballot papers in Guildford. Yesterday Peterborough, Lewisham and Brentwood councils piloted a scheme to ask voters at polling stations to sign for their ballot paper, but none of them compared signatures with anything else signed by the voter.
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