Police are investigating claims that illegal “family voting” was rife during the local elections. The Mail has the story.
The criminal offence often involves a man going to a polling booth with his wife or relative and telling them how to vote.
A local government source revealed that Manchester City Council had received 50 reports of the practice taking place.
“These were the ones that polling staff could clearly see,” they added.
The council said it didn’t recognise the 50 statistic. But a spokesman for its returning officer said “preventative and corrective action was taken in a number of cases”. …
Police are also looking into a report of family voting in neighbouring Tameside.
In February, independent organisation Democracy Volunteers said it had witnessed “concerningly high levels” of family voting during the Gorton and Denton by-election in Greater Manchester, with up to one in eight votes affected.
GMP launched a probe and later closed it, sparking claims of a “whitewash” by Nigel Farage.
In London’s Tower Hamlets – regularly described as a “rotten borough” – the Metropolitan Police are looking into claims that a candidate duped an elderly couple into handing over their votes to a so-called “proxy” whom they do not know.
In a video released online two days before the elections, the couple’s son alleged the candidate, who the Mail on Sunday is not naming, persuaded his parents to appoint another person to vote on their behalf three weeks ago.
“He [the candidate] somehow managed to manipulate my parents into signing over some details of theirs and now he’s assigned them a proxy,” he said. “We have no idea who this person is.”
Another video, posted on March 25th, shows an elderly man claiming that the same candidate “cheated” him and his wife when he persuaded them to register for proxy votes.
“He proceeded to complete proxy vote applications on our behalf appointing an individual unknown to us,” the man said in a complaint to the council’s Chief Executive. …
The elections were also marred by claims of intimidation and harassment. In Oldham, a Ferrari owned by a councillor was smashed up in the early hours of Friday while votes were being counted. …
Disorder was reported at several polling stations across the borough, including alleged attempts to intimidate voters and “shouting matches” between candidates in the street.
Two opposing groups of party activists – totalling 16 people – outside a polling station in Werneth shouted at each other and at voters as they arrived to vote.
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Welcome to “diversity”, and “cultural enrichment”.
Welcome to Englandidesh and Britainistan.
God, bring us salvation from these invaders.
Restore Britain!
Deport. Deport. Deport. Them all.
I expect GMP and the Met will look into both these reports and will declare “nothing to see here, move along.”
And the corrupt Labour Party will do SFA about it.
Nothing will come of this.
Civil war will come of this. Does the establishment realise the danger they are in?
“And then something unlooked-for happened. The rival candidate, Ali the Blest, arrived on the scene with his wives and womenfolk, who numbered, roughly, six hundred. Ali had wasted little effort on election literature, but had been heard to remark that every vote given to his opponent meant another sack thrown into the Bosphorus.”
– Saki, A Young Turkish Catastrophe, 1908
If anyone makes such a scene outside or near a polling station the staff should have called the police.
is it equally illegal for a man to take both of his wives to the polling station with instructions how to vote or does the law only apply to the first one.
Maybe this is another example of how they’re transferring their cultural norms from back in their homelands to here, in Europe. There is no excuse, of course, because they should be well aware of the rules and what’s prohibited, but do you think maybe this is how it’s done in Muslim majority countries? Despite women having the right to vote across all Muslim nations ( I think the only exception is Afghanistan ), maybe in reality it’s the man who dictates who she votes for.
We’ve seen how little involvement Muslim women seem to have on the whole in the UK in that you never see many of them attending any sort of community gathering where politics is the focus. Whether this is down to lack of interest or it’s seen as very much an area that is the ‘men’s department’ and wives are just expected to submissively defer to their husband’s wishes, I don’t know.
It’s possible that the person being ‘assisted’ cannot read English but that’s no proper excuse: it’s partly the reason party logos are put on the ballot forms. If someone wishes to vote for a non-party independent candidate then tough. Learn to recognise the letters.
Two separate instances :
Four of us in a taxi in Oldham on a Friday night sesh outing and inevitably the driver was a muzzie – they all are in Oldham – and the discussion was politics and totally unprompted the young taxi driver, about 30 ‘ish said…
“Women are not allowed to vote in our communities.”
Why ?
“The mosque tell us how to vote. We apply for postal votes and when they arrive the women in the house hand them over to the man of the house and he hands them over to the men of the mosque when they call. It’s wrong but that’s the way it is.”
Two separate occasions and different drivers but the conversations were similar.
Voting malpractices are the norm in the Indian subcontinent groups.
And I have witnessed at every election count I have attended voting papers filled out by the same hand. In the GE of 2019 we had about 100 tipped out in front of us all marked in the same blue biro, with a tick and all for Labour. I challenged the legitimacy but the Adjudicating officer said “we cannot prove it in court.” It happens at every… Read more »
Thanks for this important but depressing first hand information
Yeah that’s bad, isn’t it? Just one more example which demonstrates their culture is incompatible with ours and how they seem to get away with operating according to different, shady values. Well, just the existence of 80 odd Sharia courts ( because the authorities can’t even put an accurate figure on it, they’re that unbothered ) existing in the country demonstrates this point effectively. They’re a law unto themselves.
Liebour freed up the postal voting system and the campaign was headed up by that good friend of T. Bliar, Mr Two Jags John Prescott who of course ‘sold’ the easing of restrictions as a means to ‘widen’ our “democracy,” ie harvest the muslim vote for Liebour. In Oldham this has resulted in corruption on an Indian scale with people like Jim McMahon heavily implicated in the CSE scandal and a man who was eventually sent down for raping white girls and who had been employed by OMBC in a child safeguarding position – yep, you couldn’t make it up. Oh and widespread property deals all greased by backhanders.
Deport. Deport. Deport. Restore Britain. You know who to vote for ans it ain’t Nigel’s immigrant party.
And why are you doing business with Muzzies? Start disconnecting from them. We must only trade with our people.
Where to get a non-muslim taxi? It’s frequently a closed shop wherever you are.
Exactly.
I don’t do business with muzzies but in Oldham if you need a taxi you get a muzzie, they have tied the business up.