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 Government faces human rights inquiry into alleged electoral fraud The Government is facing a human rights inquiry into alleged electoral fraud in the UK. The investigation has been launched by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the Strasbourg-based human rights watchdog. A Resolution signed by 18 Assembly members - national politicians from the Council's 46 member countries - cites "a growing body of evidence that widespread absent vote fraud is taking place in the United Kingdom". The UK Electoral Commission warned of possible abuses and urged tighter security after postal and proxy voting on demand was introduced in 2001. And in 2005 a judge hearing a case of about alleged postal voting fiddles in Birmingham said the evidence of electoral fraud "would disgrace a banana republic". CONTINUED...... http://www.24dash.com/centralgovernment/11708.htm      |
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