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Postal ballot dirty tricks exposed

repost | 10.06.2004 08:52 | Social Struggles | Cambridge

Election fraud in the UK...

Times Online

June 10, 2004

Postal ballot dirty tricks exposed
By Jill Sherman, Dominic Kennedy and Rosemary Bennett

SENIOR Labour officials were accused last night of orchestrating a postal
ballot dirty tricks campaign amid rising concern over electoral fraud and
malpractice.

An investigation by The Times has discovered that Labours General Secretary
is urging activists to set up bogus ballot boxes today outside traditional
polling stations in all-postal voting areas...

 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-1140590,00.html

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Labour manual tells supporters how to get hold of postal votes
By Stefanie Marsh

THE Labour Party has produced a 30-page manual for its members on how to
extract postal votes from the public on their doorsteps...

 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-1140346,00.html

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Witness rule blamed for loss of confidentiality
By Dominic Kennedy

THE loss of a secret ballot for many citizens in todays elections is being
blamed on a last-minute rule change insisting a witness must sign a postal
voters declaration of identity...

 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-1140308,00.html

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even dirtier tricks

10.06.2004 13:17

I think I have sussed out why this is happening:

The War on terror has provided an excuse for those in power to
use extremist rhetoric in order to feed prejudice and create / justify
BNP heartlands

The postal vote was set up in areas of potential BNP wins

The rigging of the vote is happening to convince the public that a greater good
can be acheived by means of 'stopping fascism'

it is cognitive dissonance: People automatically move to the less of the two evils
and then that situation becomes normality.

People are being encouraged to accept a 'managed democracy'
over fascism...

Putin has done this in Russia - using Oligarchs...Bombs, Chechyna

Blair is a Stalin

The use of fear of terrorism to justify blatent racism is a crime...

Blair and this system of government should GO!
he is a tyrant.

Captain Wardrobe


Confirmation

10.06.2004 13:35

I can confirm your suspicions, Cap'n, at least as far as the effect it is having on some voters. Several hard line, anti-war, anti-Blair etc. friends of mine have confided to me that they have voted Labour only to keep the BNP out!

What they don't seem to have grasped is that the BNP would never have the power to introduce the tyrannical policies that Labour have and no doubt will continue to.

They make me think of King Canute sitting in Morecambe Bay.

Zinfandel


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