Woking Labour Party has sent the Director of Public Prosecutions a 'dossier of evidence' detailing suspicions of fraud in this year’s local elections in the Maybury and Sheerwater ward.A similar complaint was made following the elections of June 2004, leading to a Crown Prosecution Service statement that "there is little doubt that a number of false votes from fictitious people have been tendered".
Allegations at the current elections include personation, postal vote irregularities, intimidation of voters and a vote being cast for a person who was dead.
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A word about evidence. Most of what people think is material evidence of a criminal offence is in fact either hearsay evidence (asserted, but without any proof) or circumstantial evidence (suggests guilt but does not prove it). For an introduction to the subject of evidence, try: