Maybe bringing in European-style voter ID laws does have some evidence behind it.
>Concerns over personation, where a person assumes the identity of someone else to cast their vote. Observers said they witnessed half a dozen occasions when people presented screenshots of polling cards on mobiles in order to vote. They added that some voters said they didn’t know their name and address.
I moved out of the area 7 years ago but it was absolutely terrible. You had to run a gauntlet of 20 Bangladeshi men heckling you just to get inside. Leaving wasn’t great fun either.
The last election I saw there had police outside every polling station and it was much better.
A criminal ex-mayor would use criminal activity to get back into his post in order to presumably commit more crime? Who could have seen this coming!
The Corbynistas have adopted this corrupt thug as the next big champion of the British Left, after the likes of George Galloway(Respect party) and Philip Proudfoot(Northern Independence Party) and are quite pleased that he gave Labour a bloody nose.
Well, makes sense that the far left aren’t particularly respectful of democracy and don’t care about electoral fraud and intimidation. That’s how it works in places like Russia, China and Syria, after all.
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Well that didn’t take long.
Maybe bringing in European-style voter ID laws does have some evidence behind it.
>Concerns over personation, where a person assumes the identity of someone else to cast their vote. Observers said they witnessed half a dozen occasions when people presented screenshots of polling cards on mobiles in order to vote. They added that some voters said they didn’t know their name and address.
I moved out of the area 7 years ago but it was absolutely terrible. You had to run a gauntlet of 20 Bangladeshi men heckling you just to get inside. Leaving wasn’t great fun either.
The last election I saw there had police outside every polling station and it was much better.
A criminal ex-mayor would use criminal activity to get back into his post in order to presumably commit more crime? Who could have seen this coming!
The Corbynistas have adopted this corrupt thug as the next big champion of the British Left, after the likes of George Galloway(Respect party) and Philip Proudfoot(Northern Independence Party) and are quite pleased that he gave Labour a bloody nose.
Well, makes sense that the far left aren’t particularly respectful of democracy and don’t care about electoral fraud and intimidation. That’s how it works in places like Russia, China and Syria, after all.
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Looking at [Democracy Volunteers](https://democracyvolunteers.org/category/domestic-observations/) reports on other elections like [the English Mayoral Elections](https://democracyvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Final-Report-on-the-English-Regional-Mayoralties-May-2021.pdf) and the [London Mayoral and Assembly Elections](https://democracyvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Final-Report-on-the-London-Mayoral-and-Assembly-Elections.pdf) compared to the report for [Tower Hamlets](https://democracyvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Tower-Hamlets-Mayoral-Election-FINAL-REPORT-2022.pdf), evidence of “family voting” seems to always be around the 25-30% range.
But I can’t for the life of me find any other Evening Standard articles raising concerns about it in any other elections.
But the bnp were wrong remember