Democracy is a cornerstone of British freedom and it must be upheld by a voting system that is seen to be fair and incorruptible.
To this end, postal and proxy votes must be managed in a way that prevents an abuse or gaming of the system. Postal and proxy votes will need be applied for individually and only granted for persons who are unable to attend a polling station on the day of an election, for example:
Armed forces personnel serving abroad;
Persons who are abroad for business;
Persons unable to leave home or hospital through sickness or disabilty.
There may be other exceptional cases, I’ve just listed a few of the obvious cases.
A grant of postal or proxy vote would normally be valid only for a specific election event (i.e., not a permanent grant or for more than a year.)
In general, votes must be cast in person at a polling station. One person, one vote (except in cases where a proxy vote has been granted on behalf of a named person, in which case the appropriate certificate for the grant of a proxy vote must be shown at the polling station).
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Liam Tuffs podcast with Raja Miah talks about how in ethic minority areas that have ethnic minority groups associated with the Labour Party and local councillors, they would be able to see a list of everyone that’s voted postal votes in the past (legal loophole) then voters would be visited by these groups of individuals to apply whatever pressure required for them to vote in favour of labour, and that some people would hand over their signed postal votes voluntarily and Some would need more convincing.
What happens is the voters would sign their postal vote and give it back over to these groups/activists whatever you want to call them, they would get the voter to write their signature with no political party crossed off and the paper and the envelope would be handed over from the voter to these “collectors” and they take the papers too a mosque or a community centre and “postal vote harvest” in favour of course labour.
The voters living within these communities would suffer consequences from these brotherhoods which would use their connections with local crime groups who are in bed with Labour Party members and councillors, these known criminals with their status within the communities also go out to collect postal votes from citizens and the fear of anything happening to the voters family would mean they just hand over their signed postal votes and then they would filled in favour of labour by the collectors and then posted off.
So overall absolutely Yes postal votes need to be restricted and this policy gets my vote!
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This is vital for fair voting
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Free and fair elections with one vote in all public elections afforded to all citizens is spot on. (I would also say a photo ID is required).
Also, that any standing candidate of any political party can assign two individuals with full recorded access rights to the election process and procedure to ensure integrity. This includes the option to voters of making their vote public.
This would really help in transparency and make sure as a minimum, the open register of votes are beyond contestation.
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Definitely a worthwhile added measure to the policy to allow representatives from candidates to invigilate the election process.
It’s an interesting idea to allow the option for voters to make their vote public. However, I can see this being open to abuse among some communities, where a person of influence may wish to ensure that those under their sphere of influence are all voting the ‘right’ way. The right to a secret ballot must remain sacrosanct.
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100% on the right for a vote to remain secrete!
On the back of that, should we consider it being a specific offence to pressure anyone to make their vote public. This would be a (very mild) protection measure to ensure election interference is limited.
Just a thought.
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Muslims take children out of school for Ramadam and pay no fines. Two tier schooling
