Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Fraud and the potential for fraud
Courtesy of Nick Barlow, a judge has condemned the postal voting system as "an open invitation to fraud". Richard Mawrey QC, who is sitting as election commissioner hearing allegations of fraud during last year's local elections in Birmingham, stated that "If I come to the conclusion that all the respondents in both cases were entirely innocent, I would not neglect to point out the law as it stands is an open invitation to fraud. I could not come to any other conclusion."
I hate to say that we told you so but...
I hate to say that we told you so but...
