The Sunday Telegraph has more on the growing scandal surrounding the Labour party’s decision to relax the rules on postal voting:
“Concerns over fraud are so widespread that senior police officers, election officials and other senior civil servants were recently summoned to an emergency Whitehall summit to discuss ways to combat ballot-rigging. The Association of Electoral Administrators, which represents election officials, last night accused the Government of ignoring calls to tighten voting procedures. Malcolm Dumper, the association’s chief executive, said: “We do not have the time or the resources to carry out stringent checks and that means there is the opportunity for widescale fraud.” In December the association warned the Government that the deadline for postal vote applications, April 24, would allow only five days to process millions of application forms and send out ballot papers. It called for the deadline to be brought forward to April 19, but the Government ignored the request.”
I wonder why that was.