Peter Willsman’s reading of Banana Republic UK? by Sam Buckley, published in 2011, prompted another look at the parliamentary selection scandal and subsequent cover up in Erith & Thamesmead in 2009. As well as covering covers vote rigging, fraud and error in British elections since 2001, this book has a section on “vote rigging in […]
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Break-ins, flashbacks and ballot boxes
Mar 19th, 2012 by Peter Kenyon.News of forced entry in the Leader of the Labour Party’s office in the Palace of Westminster reminded me of the infamous ballot box and voting paper tampering during the Erith and Thamesmead prospective parliamentary candidate selection in 2009. Leader, Ed Miliband was reported earlier today by the Press Association, picked up by the Huffington […]
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Labour abandons ballot box tampering inquiry – finger print evidence ignored
Sep 22nd, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Labour’s national executive yesterday resolved to abandon its investigation into the tampering with a ballot box containing members votes in the Erith and Thamesmead parliamentary selection last year, in spite of a clear male fingerprint being discovered on ripped-up ballot papers. The discovery that the ballot box which had been stored in a cupboard at […]
