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Concerns over Bristol mayor ballot box security & count delay

Tony Gosling | 05.05.2012 04:55

The ‘Yes’ campaign won a majority on about 5000 votes but concerns raised about why the ballot boxes were kept overnight in a highly political private business premises, Bristol City Football Club owned by long time critic of Bristol City Council Stephen Lansdown giving him and his colleagues to possibility of interfering in the electoral process overnight. Former slave traders 'The Merchant Venturers', local paper 'The Post' and the business community of Bristol annoint Architect and Merchant Venturer, George Ferguson, as their favoured candidate for mayor in November 2012.
 http://bcfm.org.uk/2012/05/04/17/friday-drivetime-69/16899


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Tony Gosling
- Original article on IMC Bristol: http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/708593