The Independent reports today that MPs have called for action to stamp out voting fraud amid warnings that postal ballots may be damaging public confidence in elections. Conservatives demanded that Ministers introduce a new system to register voters to combat fraud after it was claimed that voting irregularities in wards hit by a scandal in Birmingham were worse than previously thought, and Liberal Democrats said they were considering withdrawing support for postal ballots.Bridget Prentice, the Constitutional Affairs minister, said: "We will take a very careful analysis of what has happened with the Electoral Commission, to see if there is anything we need to do to make elections as fair and as open as possible."
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