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Postal Votes Fiasco in the NW

pingupete | 01.06.2004 20:11 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Liverpool

Can we publish this on Indymedia?

Firstly, a load of people have not had their Postal Votes. If they do not arrive before 12 midnight on the 1st/2nd June then we can challenge these election results with a legal based case.

Secondly, everyone should have received freeposts from all of the parties that are standing. If you have not received a freepost leaflet from the BNP or English Democrats (BNP splinter) then you are lucky, but we don’t need to advertise this to help them with their complaints.

However, on the less fair side of things, a substantial number of Green and Tory freepost leaflets have “disappeared” in NW sorting offices. Obviously I’m not too concerned about the latter, but you might want to ask which party has the motive to hide Green and Tory leaflets with Lancashire postcode destinations? Respect people have told me that their freepost has also not been received in some areas.

Could people in the NW put down their postcodes (first part is fine) and whatever leaflets are missing, so people have the facts about who didn’t get their leaflets when the results come in?

This Postal Vote system has been a rushed job and we need to make sure the government doesn’t try and foist an untried system onto us ever again.

pingupete
- e-mail: pingupete@hotmail.com

Comments

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  1. who decided on the postal vote — Captain Wardrobe
  2. another point — jan
  3. What's in a name? Long live NVDA — Real democracy happens every 4 years?
  4. Campaigning strategies — pingupete
  5. Voting Secrecy — Zinfandel
  6. Respect asked Greens, they said no — hack
  7. Respect Policy — Zinfandel
  8. Looking forward — pingupete
  9. Greens need a rethink too — Andy
  10. Politics — pingupete
  11. Trial Run — Zinfandel
  12. It Gets Worse — pingupete
  13. Postal Votes — Edseam
  14. Sword Swallower? — Zinfandel
  15. More Disappeared Postal Ballots — pingupete
  16. Still out campaigning... — Kai Andersen
  17. Oh well... — Edseam
  18. Flyposting — Hensts
  19. Non voters — Edseam
  20. Disenfranchised — pingupete
  21. Democracy is participatory (it's also skewed and one-sided!) — Timbo
  22. Response — Edseam
  23. Conspiracy Theories? — Dartanion
  24. Results — pingupete
  25. Central Ward Result — pingupete
  26. Hmm — Edseam
  27. Euro — Edseam
  28. So, Why? — Zinfandel
  29. Restating the case — pingupete
  30. But credit where it is due — pingupete
  31. Tracing voters — Edseam
  32. Secret Ballot — Zinfandel
  33. Secrecy — Edseam
  34. Attacking the NUM leader and miners - Tory cheap shot! — Kai Andersen
  35. Tory?? — Edseam
  36. Ego... — Zinfandel
  37. Ditto — Zinfandel
  38. Fair points — Edseam
  39. NUM had a ballot in late 1983 to strike against mine closures! — Kai Andersen