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Election fraud warning issued
4:58am Saturday 19th April 2008
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Bradford Council and the police have warned they will be taking a tough stance on allegations of electoral fraud.
The statement comes as more than 50,000 postal ballot papers are being posted out next week across ahead of the forthcoming local elections on Thursday, May 1.
This year West Yorkshire Police, Bradford Council's chief executive and returning officer Tony Reeves, electoral fraud experts from the Crown Prosecution Service and the Electoral Commission are co-operating even more closely to ensure the elections are run fairly and safely.
It follows eight allegations of impropriety at last year's Bradford Council election, none of which resulted in any action.
In addition, a high-profile case is proceeding through the courts with seven men accused of vote-rigging in the run-up to the 2005 general election.
Former Conservative parliamentary candidate Haroon Rashid, who stood in Bradford West at that election, have been charged along with former Tory Bradford councillors Jamshed Khan and Reis Khan. They have been charged with four other defendants with conspiring to defraud the Council's registration officer over falsely completed applications to vote by post.
West Yorkshire Assistant Chief Constable of local policing, David Crompton, said: "Any genuine allegations of electoral fraud will be treated extremely seriously. We are working closely in partnership with returning officers to share information to identify any suspicious activity.
"The suggestion that electoral fraud is taking place has the potential to undermine people's faith in the voting system and therefore to undermine communities.
"I want anyone aware of any suspicious activity, or who feels someone is attempting to unfairly influence them, to contact their local returning officer in the first instance."
Guidance to returning officers states that anyone wanting to make an allegation of electoral fraud should have evidence and be willing to make a statement to police. Returning officers may then decide to refer some matters to the police for further investigation, but the police have warned they will not take on unsubstantiated, third-party reports.
Mr Reeves said: "What we want to see is a fair and transparent local election in which the public can have full confidence in the outcome. I am determined to work with police to ensure that any problems are dealt with swiftly and robustly."
The police are also working closely with the postal services to ensure the security of postal votes and delivery addresses.
In a bid to tighten security the Council wrote to everyone in the district registered for postal voting before last year's elections.
The new measures, designed to help combat election fraud, include requiring a database of signatures and date of births to be kept by local authorities. The information is then kept on file to be checked against votes at election time. And the Council has a "no touch" policy with regard to postal ballots, a code all parties, candidates and canvassers must sign up to.
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albion, west riding says...
6:22am Sat 19 Apr 08
albion, west riding says...
6:22am Sat 19 Apr 08
albion, west riding says...
6:22am Sat 19 Apr 08
Mr Sensible, Bingley says...
10:10am Sat 19 Apr 08
Mr Sensible, Bingley says...
10:10am Sat 19 Apr 08
Mr Sensible, Bingley says...
10:10am Sat 19 Apr 08
Mr Sensible, Bingley says...
10:10am Sat 19 Apr 08
mrs walker, round here says...
10:32am Sat 19 Apr 08
mrs walker, round here says...
10:32am Sat 19 Apr 08
mrs walker, round here says...
10:32am Sat 19 Apr 08
mrs walker, round here says...
10:32am Sat 19 Apr 08
skippy, says...
11:07am Sat 19 Apr 08
Mr Sensible wrote:which areas are you on about,say what mean
In certain areas it should be compulsary to vote in person and have die placed on their hand when they have cast their vote. No one step further chop off the hand.
skippy, says...
11:07am Sat 19 Apr 08
Mr Sensible wrote:which areas are you on about,say what mean
In certain areas it should be compulsary to vote in person and have die placed on their hand when they have cast their vote. No one step further chop off the hand.
skippy, says...
11:07am Sat 19 Apr 08
Mr Sensible wrote:which areas are you on about,say what mean
In certain areas it should be compulsary to vote in person and have die placed on their hand when they have cast their vote. No one step further chop off the hand.
skippy, says...
11:07am Sat 19 Apr 08
Mr Sensible wrote:which areas are you on about,say what mean
In certain areas it should be compulsary to vote in person and have die placed on their hand when they have cast their vote. No one step further chop off the hand.
chris, BRADFORD says...
11:33am Sat 19 Apr 08
The BNP are sat at home in the warm because they know they going to win a 3 seat in queensbury this year Because action do more than words these days
Vote the BNP on MAY 1ST
chris, BRADFORD says...
11:33am Sat 19 Apr 08
The BNP are sat at home in the warm because they know they going to win a 3 seat in queensbury this year Because action do more than words these days
Vote the BNP on MAY 1ST
chris, BRADFORD says...
11:33am Sat 19 Apr 08
The BNP are sat at home in the warm because they know they going to win a 3 seat in queensbury this year Because action do more than words these days
Vote the BNP on MAY 1ST
chris, BRADFORD says...
11:33am Sat 19 Apr 08
The BNP are sat at home in the warm because they know they going to win a 3 seat in queensbury this year Because action do more than words these days
Vote the BNP on MAY 1ST
mrs walker, round here says...
11:57am Sat 19 Apr 08
chris wrote:Nooooo! They're nasty! And useless! And they bribe old people and hide behind a facade of patriotism and spread fear, mistrust and disinformation. Don't do it Chris! That way madness lies! :-)
It getting bad now if terry rooney the MP of bradford is sat in queensbury co op today trying to get votes And the UKIP have a stall outside the co op.
The BNP are sat at home in the warm because they know they going to win a 3 seat in queensbury this year Because action do more than words these days
Vote the BNP on MAY 1ST
mrs walker, round here says...
11:57am Sat 19 Apr 08
chris wrote:Nooooo! They're nasty! And useless! And they bribe old people and hide behind a facade of patriotism and spread fear, mistrust and disinformation. Don't do it Chris! That way madness lies! :-)
It getting bad now if terry rooney the MP of bradford is sat in queensbury co op today trying to get votes And the UKIP have a stall outside the co op.
The BNP are sat at home in the warm because they know they going to win a 3 seat in queensbury this year Because action do more than words these days
Vote the BNP on MAY 1ST
mrs walker, round here says...
11:57am Sat 19 Apr 08
chris wrote:Nooooo! They're nasty! And useless! And they bribe old people and hide behind a facade of patriotism and spread fear, mistrust and disinformation. Don't do it Chris! That way madness lies! :-)
It getting bad now if terry rooney the MP of bradford is sat in queensbury co op today trying to get votes And the UKIP have a stall outside the co op.
The BNP are sat at home in the warm because they know they going to win a 3 seat in queensbury this year Because action do more than words these days
Vote the BNP on MAY 1ST
mrs walker, round here says...
11:57am Sat 19 Apr 08
chris wrote:Nooooo! They're nasty! And useless! And they bribe old people and hide behind a facade of patriotism and spread fear, mistrust and disinformation. Don't do it Chris! That way madness lies! :-)
It getting bad now if terry rooney the MP of bradford is sat in queensbury co op today trying to get votes And the UKIP have a stall outside the co op.
The BNP are sat at home in the warm because they know they going to win a 3 seat in queensbury this year Because action do more than words these days
Vote the BNP on MAY 1ST
Smudge, KEIGHLEY says...
12:08pm Sat 19 Apr 08
Smudge, KEIGHLEY says...
12:08pm Sat 19 Apr 08
Smudge, KEIGHLEY says...
12:08pm Sat 19 Apr 08
Smudge, KEIGHLEY says...
12:08pm Sat 19 Apr 08
mrs walker, round here says...
1:03pm Sat 19 Apr 08
Smudge wrote:See your point, maybe the answer is to insist on translations being issued at the same time. I think you're making a common mistake though in assuming that all people who look similar think the same way. In a ward of people who you see as Asian or Muslim you could have Sunni and Shia, Ugandan Asians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Iraquis, Armenians, Iranians.. to name but a few, as well as British Asians and people who look Asian but have never actually been out of this country. There's a danger of stereotyping here. The 'Asian' community is no more one big united mass than the 'White' community. I have lived in poor areas that have been predominantly 'white', 'asian' and 'black'. Poverty is poverty. The problems that those communities face - and the behaviour of sections of those communities - doesn't actually differ very much. We're all people :-)
A car goes by with loud speaker amplifying the words of a foreign national, in a native language alien to ours. To the average English person it is just some foreign gibberish, how are we to know what is being advocated. Could it be as innocent as we expect from a candidate hoping to represent ALL members of the ward? It could also be intimidation to get votes from the fear of repercussions advocated. Did someone speak of transparency? What happens to the indigenous Britons who finds themselves a minority group in a foreign ghetto?
mrs walker, round here says...
1:03pm Sat 19 Apr 08
Smudge wrote:See your point, maybe the answer is to insist on translations being issued at the same time. I think you're making a common mistake though in assuming that all people who look similar think the same way. In a ward of people who you see as Asian or Muslim you could have Sunni and Shia, Ugandan Asians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Iraquis, Armenians, Iranians.. to name but a few, as well as British Asians and people who look Asian but have never actually been out of this country. There's a danger of stereotyping here. The 'Asian' community is no more one big united mass than the 'White' community. I have lived in poor areas that have been predominantly 'white', 'asian' and 'black'. Poverty is poverty. The problems that those communities face - and the behaviour of sections of those communities - doesn't actually differ very much. We're all people :-)
A car goes by with loud speaker amplifying the words of a foreign national, in a native language alien to ours. To the average English person it is just some foreign gibberish, how are we to know what is being advocated. Could it be as innocent as we expect from a candidate hoping to represent ALL members of the ward? It could also be intimidation to get votes from the fear of repercussions advocated. Did someone speak of transparency? What happens to the indigenous Britons who finds themselves a minority group in a foreign ghetto?
mrs walker, round here says...
1:03pm Sat 19 Apr 08
Smudge wrote:See your point, maybe the answer is to insist on translations being issued at the same time. I think you're making a common mistake though in assuming that all people who look similar think the same way. In a ward of people who you see as Asian or Muslim you could have Sunni and Shia, Ugandan Asians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Iraquis, Armenians, Iranians.. to name but a few, as well as British Asians and people who look Asian but have never actually been out of this country. There's a danger of stereotyping here. The 'Asian' community is no more one big united mass than the 'White' community. I have lived in poor areas that have been predominantly 'white', 'asian' and 'black'. Poverty is poverty. The problems that those communities face - and the behaviour of sections of those communities - doesn't actually differ very much. We're all people :-)
A car goes by with loud speaker amplifying the words of a foreign national, in a native language alien to ours. To the average English person it is just some foreign gibberish, how are we to know what is being advocated. Could it be as innocent as we expect from a candidate hoping to represent ALL members of the ward? It could also be intimidation to get votes from the fear of repercussions advocated. Did someone speak of transparency? What happens to the indigenous Britons who finds themselves a minority group in a foreign ghetto?
mrs walker, round here says...
1:03pm Sat 19 Apr 08
Smudge wrote:See your point, maybe the answer is to insist on translations being issued at the same time. I think you're making a common mistake though in assuming that all people who look similar think the same way. In a ward of people who you see as Asian or Muslim you could have Sunni and Shia, Ugandan Asians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Iraquis, Armenians, Iranians.. to name but a few, as well as British Asians and people who look Asian but have never actually been out of this country. There's a danger of stereotyping here. The 'Asian' community is no more one big united mass than the 'White' community. I have lived in poor areas that have been predominantly 'white', 'asian' and 'black'. Poverty is poverty. The problems that those communities face - and the behaviour of sections of those communities - doesn't actually differ very much. We're all people :-)
A car goes by with loud speaker amplifying the words of a foreign national, in a native language alien to ours. To the average English person it is just some foreign gibberish, how are we to know what is being advocated. Could it be as innocent as we expect from a candidate hoping to represent ALL members of the ward? It could also be intimidation to get votes from the fear of repercussions advocated. Did someone speak of transparency? What happens to the indigenous Britons who finds themselves a minority group in a foreign ghetto?
skippy, says...
1:07pm Sat 19 Apr 08
mrs walker wrote:woody isnt,or jacobs
Smudge wrote: A car goes by with loud speaker amplifying the words of a foreign national, in a native language alien to ours. To the average English person it is just some foreign gibberish, how are we to know what is being advocated. Could it be as innocent as we expect from a candidate hoping to represent ALL members of the ward? It could also be intimidation to get votes from the fear of repercussions advocated. Did someone speak of transparency? What happens to the indigenous Britons who finds themselves a minority group in a foreign ghetto?See your point, maybe the answer is to insist on translations being issued at the same time. I think you're making a common mistake though in assuming that all people who look similar think the same way. In a ward of people who you see as Asian or Muslim you could have Sunni and Shia, Ugandan Asians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Iraquis, Armenians, Iranians.. to name but a few, as well as British Asians and people who look Asian but have never actually been out of this country. There's a danger of stereotyping here. The 'Asian' community is no more one big united mass than the 'White' community. I have lived in poor areas that have been predominantly 'white', 'asian' and 'black'. Poverty is poverty. The problems that those communities face - and the behaviour of sections of those communities - doesn't actually differ very much. We're all people :-)
skippy, says...
1:07pm Sat 19 Apr 08
mrs walker wrote:woody isnt,or jacobs
Smudge wrote: A car goes by with loud speaker amplifying the words of a foreign national, in a native language alien to ours. To the average English person it is just some foreign gibberish, how are we to know what is being advocated. Could it be as innocent as we expect from a candidate hoping to represent ALL members of the ward? It could also be intimidation to get votes from the fear of repercussions advocated. Did someone speak of transparency? What happens to the indigenous Britons who finds themselves a minority group in a foreign ghetto?See your point, maybe the answer is to insist on translations being issued at the same time. I think you're making a common mistake though in assuming that all people who look similar think the same way. In a ward of people who you see as Asian or Muslim you could have Sunni and Shia, Ugandan Asians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Iraquis, Armenians, Iranians.. to name but a few, as well as British Asians and people who look Asian but have never actually been out of this country. There's a danger of stereotyping here. The 'Asian' community is no more one big united mass than the 'White' community. I have lived in poor areas that have been predominantly 'white', 'asian' and 'black'. Poverty is poverty. The problems that those communities face - and the behaviour of sections of those communities - doesn't actually differ very much. We're all people :-)
skippy, says...
1:07pm Sat 19 Apr 08
mrs walker wrote:woody isnt,or jacobs
Smudge wrote: A car goes by with loud speaker amplifying the words of a foreign national, in a native language alien to ours. To the average English person it is just some foreign gibberish, how are we to know what is being advocated. Could it be as innocent as we expect from a candidate hoping to represent ALL members of the ward? It could also be intimidation to get votes from the fear of repercussions advocated. Did someone speak of transparency? What happens to the indigenous Britons who finds themselves a minority group in a foreign ghetto?See your point, maybe the answer is to insist on translations being issued at the same time. I think you're making a common mistake though in assuming that all people who look similar think the same way. In a ward of people who you see as Asian or Muslim you could have Sunni and Shia, Ugandan Asians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Iraquis, Armenians, Iranians.. to name but a few, as well as British Asians and people who look Asian but have never actually been out of this country. There's a danger of stereotyping here. The 'Asian' community is no more one big united mass than the 'White' community. I have lived in poor areas that have been predominantly 'white', 'asian' and 'black'. Poverty is poverty. The problems that those communities face - and the behaviour of sections of those communities - doesn't actually differ very much. We're all people :-)
skippy, says...
1:07pm Sat 19 Apr 08
mrs walker wrote:woody isnt,or jacobs
Smudge wrote: A car goes by with loud speaker amplifying the words of a foreign national, in a native language alien to ours. To the average English person it is just some foreign gibberish, how are we to know what is being advocated. Could it be as innocent as we expect from a candidate hoping to represent ALL members of the ward? It could also be intimidation to get votes from the fear of repercussions advocated. Did someone speak of transparency? What happens to the indigenous Britons who finds themselves a minority group in a foreign ghetto?See your point, maybe the answer is to insist on translations being issued at the same time. I think you're making a common mistake though in assuming that all people who look similar think the same way. In a ward of people who you see as Asian or Muslim you could have Sunni and Shia, Ugandan Asians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Iraquis, Armenians, Iranians.. to name but a few, as well as British Asians and people who look Asian but have never actually been out of this country. There's a danger of stereotyping here. The 'Asian' community is no more one big united mass than the 'White' community. I have lived in poor areas that have been predominantly 'white', 'asian' and 'black'. Poverty is poverty. The problems that those communities face - and the behaviour of sections of those communities - doesn't actually differ very much. We're all people :-)
Bad_guy, Keighley says...
1:17pm Sat 19 Apr 08
may i take this opportunity to say its always a pleasure to read your comments, One of the very few people who say it fairly!
Thank You, Your proof Decency is not that hard to find!
Bad_guy, Keighley says...
1:17pm Sat 19 Apr 08
may i take this opportunity to say its always a pleasure to read your comments, One of the very few people who say it fairly!
Thank You, Your proof Decency is not that hard to find!
Bad_guy, Keighley says...
1:17pm Sat 19 Apr 08
may i take this opportunity to say its always a pleasure to read your comments, One of the very few people who say it fairly!
Thank You, Your proof Decency is not that hard to find!
Bad_guy, Keighley says...
1:17pm Sat 19 Apr 08
may i take this opportunity to say its always a pleasure to read your comments, One of the very few people who say it fairly!
Thank You, Your proof Decency is not that hard to find!
mrs walker, round here says...
1:53pm Sat 19 Apr 08
However, may I suggest that you actually go to the polling station and put 'none of the above'. Then it will be counted as such.
mrs walker, round here says...
1:53pm Sat 19 Apr 08
However, may I suggest that you actually go to the polling station and put 'none of the above'. Then it will be counted as such.
mrs walker, round here says...
1:53pm Sat 19 Apr 08
However, may I suggest that you actually go to the polling station and put 'none of the above'. Then it will be counted as such.
mrs walker, round here says...
1:53pm Sat 19 Apr 08
However, may I suggest that you actually go to the polling station and put 'none of the above'. Then it will be counted as such.
D.J.L., Torrevieja,Spain. says...
2:40pm Sat 19 Apr 08
D.J.L., Torrevieja,Spain. says...
2:40pm Sat 19 Apr 08
D.J.L., Torrevieja,Spain. says...
2:40pm Sat 19 Apr 08
D.J.L., Torrevieja,Spain. says...
2:40pm Sat 19 Apr 08
mrs walker, round here says...
2:52pm Sat 19 Apr 08
Here's Mrs Walker's equation for trouble:
(Anger+testosterone) x many = bad news
mrs walker, round here says...
2:52pm Sat 19 Apr 08
Here's Mrs Walker's equation for trouble:
(Anger+testosterone) x many = bad news
mrs walker, round here says...
2:52pm Sat 19 Apr 08
Here's Mrs Walker's equation for trouble:
(Anger+testosterone) x many = bad news
mrs walker, round here says...
2:52pm Sat 19 Apr 08
Here's Mrs Walker's equation for trouble:
(Anger+testosterone) x many = bad news
mrs walker, round here says...
2:54pm Sat 19 Apr 08
D.J.L. wrote:Read the thread D.J. L *yawn*
is it just me or is it the fact that all the people in the loop of this fraudulant act,are all ASIANS,or am i going to be called a rascist,as is the norm when you say anything about these kind of things?
mrs walker, round here says...
2:54pm Sat 19 Apr 08
D.J.L. wrote:Read the thread D.J. L *yawn*
is it just me or is it the fact that all the people in the loop of this fraudulant act,are all ASIANS,or am i going to be called a rascist,as is the norm when you say anything about these kind of things?
mrs walker, round here says...
2:54pm Sat 19 Apr 08
D.J.L. wrote:Read the thread D.J. L *yawn*
is it just me or is it the fact that all the people in the loop of this fraudulant act,are all ASIANS,or am i going to be called a rascist,as is the norm when you say anything about these kind of things?
mrs walker, round here says...
2:54pm Sat 19 Apr 08
D.J.L. wrote:Read the thread D.J. L *yawn*
is it just me or is it the fact that all the people in the loop of this fraudulant act,are all ASIANS,or am i going to be called a rascist,as is the norm when you say anything about these kind of things?
Mr Sensible, Bingley says...
2:57pm Sat 19 Apr 08
Mr Sensible, Bingley says...
2:57pm Sat 19 Apr 08
Mr Sensible, Bingley says...
2:57pm Sat 19 Apr 08
albion, west riding says...
6:22am Sat 19 Apr 08