With an almost daily diet of reading the blatant vote rigging exposures in our national newspapers regarding the widespread and dubious outcome of local elections, which now includes court cases and jail sentences, surely the time has come to declare the tainted 2004 all-out postal results as both null and void.
Even a prominent LibDem from the Midlands has called for the General Election to be postponed in order for new anti-fraud laws to be put in place to avoid similar instances of these abuses being discovered in the 2005 national results.
The sooner we get back to the privacy of voting within the confines of a properly policed polling station with its enclosed booths and the personal opportunity of placing your SECRET vote in a sealed container, without anyone seeing it prior to the official count night, the sooner we can return to ‘free-from-fraud’ elections. Ill-conceived and hurried ballot formats are NO match for our tried and tested polling station customs with its SMALL postal vote.
This traditional and commonsense way of casting our votes has served us well for many, many years. Its return will, we feel, be endorsed by most people in the country who are SICKENED by the current electoral abuse that has so unfortunately crept into British politics.
The Southport Party is in the forefront of supporting this ‘return to basics’ when it comes to selecting our representatives in any future elections, thus avoiding the 14 or more possible opportunities of fraud that are currently embedded in the mass postal vote format, as highlighted by Judge Richard Mawrey QC in his summing up at the end of the recent Birmingham ballot rigging court case.