Beating Voter Fraud
In another step to rein in the voter fraud which Labour have excelled at over the past few years, the spookily obvious requirement that people actually register themselves to vote is now coming in.
Much as it’s impossible to understand Labour’s point that having equal sized constituencies is somehow ‘unfair’, a reasonable person would wonder why it is in the slightest bit contentious to say – if you want to vote, then register. But Labour are of course against it.
Perhaps it’s more obvious now we know that Mr and Mrs Harman have 7 votes between them in the Labour leadership contest. We can see why they think gerrymandering other votes is acceptable.
Quite why Labour voters should be unwilling or incapable of registering is a mystery…except of course they actually have to exist. Introducing the revolutionary requirement for voters to exist reduced the roll by 10% in Northern Ireland. Next up should be the disfranchising of Irish and commonwealth citizens, and tight restrictions on postal voting.
Another day, another stab at reducing the deliberately inbuilt Labour bias in the political system. Next up the BBC…if only.
“Next up should be the disfranchising of Irish and commonwealth citizens, and tight restrictions on postal voting.”
I completely agree, I cannot for my life understand why Commonwealth citizens get the right to vote in this country. We do not enjoy the reciprocal agreement. I would go further than you and scrap postal voting altogether. Seeing as we have an excess of civil servants, those who truly cannot get to the polling station but want to cast their vote, should be visited by a civil servant who collects the vote and checks the identity of said person.
Yes, I faced the prospect of being in hospital for an operation over the last EU vote but I would have been fine with jumping (or in my case crawling painfully) through some tough hoops to get a postal vote organised.
Or if, as you suggest, it had meant someone turning up at my hospital bed and making sure everything was valid then that’s a fair price to pay for the integrity of the electoral system. I’d be very happy with that solution.
Either approach is a massive improvement on the current farce.
You just know when Labour start whining and bleating that it’s the “right thing to do”….. as Brownarse was so fond of saying. 😉
The sound of vested interests and lobby groups squealing should be set to music and played on the radio.
I could have phrased that better…… if Labour don’t like what you’re doing – then do it! 😛
I was shocked, nay horrified, to hear Mr and Mrs Harman (she earns more than him doesn’t she?) have 7 votes as said by Cameron on PMQs. Shocked and horrified may be overstating it a bit really. The word I want is perhaps disgusted.
The sad thing is that there’s no need for “surprise”, though. Oddly it just comes across as par for the course.