{"id":1180272,"date":"2026-09-01T06:26:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1180272\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T06:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:26:55","slug":"police-to-review-family-voting-allegations-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1180272\/","title":{"rendered":"Police to review family voting allegations in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/Image\/Police-to-review-family-voting-allegations-in-Birmingham-\/shutterstock_277757578712\/jpg\" alt=\"Police to review family voting allegations in Birmingham  image\" class=\"img-responsive img-full\"\/>\u00a9 Tom Spender \/ Shutterstock.com<br \/>\n        West Midlands Police will review allegations of illegal family voting during Birmingham&#8217;s May local elections, working alongside Birmingham City Council and the Electoral Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The review reportedly follows reports from polling station staff describing repeated attempts to influence voters, including people entering voting booths together and using gestures to indicate how others should vote.<\/p>\n<p>The practice was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/Councils-urged-to-tackle-family-voting\/64005\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brought into focus following allegation<\/a><\/strong> it was rife in the Gorton and Denton by-election.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said: \u2018We will be assessing new information that has come to light and will work with Birmingham City Council and the Electoral Commission as part of the review process.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/form\/bulletin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Politics &#038; Policy banner.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Tom Spender \/ Shutterstock.com West Midlands Police will review allegations of illegal family voting during Birmingham&#8217;s May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1180273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,10751,529,16,15],"class_list":["post-1180272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-local-elections","tag-police","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117194372066773969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1180273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}