| Labour will be forced to provide safeguards to stop the electoral fraud that has disfigured local elections, according to Patrick Wintour and Martin Wainwright of The Guardian newspaper. The government has been resisting the advice of the Electoral Commission to bring in individual voter registration, a reform already introduced in Northern Ireland. But the local elections have been marked by a growing number of allegations of voter fraud, especially in the use of postal votes, with alleged offences in Tower Hamlets, Birmingham, Woking and Bradford. LibDem Lord Rennard warned that the government would be defeated on the issue in the Lords in a week's time, saying the current proposals were inadequate and did not have the support of his party, the Conservatives or the Electoral Commission. |  Lord Rennard |
Minister Warns Of Serious Consequences For Election Fraudsters
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