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Originally Posted by vorlon24
See - I knew that Labour were a bunch of crooks!
I am undecided between yellow and blue at the moment
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Its a goldfish bowl world when you can extrapalate the whole spectrum from one crooked incident. Yellow or Blue, your having a laugh... anyway
Ballot box votes are secret because your polling card [id address] is not linked to the slip of paper you put a cross on. The marked register is to stop fraud, ie make sure no one votes multiple times and is simply the summary of people who have handed over polling cards.
Postal votes are retained and with a lot of effort, the barcode on the vote can be identified to a particular house/person. Hyndburns votes came in by the thousand were quickly parted and votes put in piles and counted. Members of thepublic were and did witness this. In fact the BNP came in twice and were happy with the process!!!
BTW I voted against Postal Votes [b4 someone assumes wrongly] in Council for the record because of cheating and because it gives 'the cant be bothered/deliberatley uniformed' an easy protest vote or four! A 3rd reason was turnout. I think the turnout is part of the mandate those elected get. In other words to artificaially raise it gives politicians more cedibility than otherwise.
It is my clear view that considerable cheating took place in Hyndburn in 03 and 04, however the police have been unable to substantiate this allegation and we have to accept that the allegations remain unfounded! Whats laughable is the Labour Party get the blame - I just wish some people would look at the results because if we did, we must be the stupidiest constituency party in Britain!
Cheating has always gone on. I dont know what happened this time to the allegation that a closed private care home in Altham cast multiple postal votes in 04. Mind you it has long been an accusation that during Maggies run and her love affair with the massive giveaway of state benefits proping up unlicensed unregulated care homes in the 80's, she could always rely on a 100% postal vote turnout when you checked the marked register.
I dont think colour of skin stops people cheating. How many people gathered up the wifes vote and said here love put a cross on this [why whats that for hubby???], ta, never mind, I'll tell you when I get back from the post box...