Bradford Council is to write to everyone registered for postal voting in a bid to tighten security at elections. New measures to help combat election fraud include requiring a database of signatures and date of births to be kept by local authorities. The information will then be kept on file to be checked against postal votes at election time.Bradford's move comes as the CPS begins a review of police files on 13 people at the centre of the country's biggest inquiry into vote-rigging. Bradford Councillor Jamshed Khan (now an Independent) and former councillor Reis Khan were arrested in separate raids last year during a police investigation into voting irregularities.
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