UK vote rigging in Pakistan??

[poo at Paul's]

Couldn't see this posted on here, but saw this on early doors news this morning.

WTF is all this about? Are these peope living there, or on holidays. SOme allegedly are signing mutiple forms, presumably in other's names.

It's outrageous. I suspect the constituencies involved are not "Middle England" either!

WTF do we all have to put up with this crap.

[Countdown]

Do expats have a right to vote ?

[poo at Paul's]

I think they would if are resident in the UK, my bro is expat in France and doesn't as he has no home here.

BUt if they did, they should nto be selling their votes as is alleged here!

[juice]

poo at Paul's said:

I think they would if are resident in the UK, my bro is expat in France and doesn't as he has no home here.

BUt if they did, they should nto be selling their votes as is alleged here!

He should have a vote.

UK Voting website said:

Every British citizen who has been registered to vote in the UK within the last 15 years is eligible to vote in the UK general election on 6 May 2010. The deadline for registering to vote or applying for a postal or proxy vote has now passed.

Go here

https://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/register_to_vote/bri...

Enter last postcode he lived at in the UK.

This produces a canned form that you send to the local council for that postcode. They then check the details against their electoral role and make sure you're elligible.

Once registered, you have 3 options to vote. By post, in person or by proxy. Each of those has its own form again which has to be checked again before you can "actually" vote.

Its a long drawn out process which I suspect puts a lot of expats off..But I'm registered and have voted...

[poo at Paul's]

juice said:

poo at Paul's said:

I think they would if are resident in the UK, my bro is expat in France and doesn't as he has no home here.

BUt if they did, they should nto be selling their votes as is alleged here!

He should have a vote.

UK Voting website said:

Every British citizen who has been registered to vote in the UK within the last 15 years is eligible to vote in the UK general election on 6 May 2010. The deadline for registering to vote or applying for a postal or proxy vote has now passed.

Go here

https://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/register_to_vote/bri...

Enter last postcode he lived at in the UK.

This produces a canned form that you send to the local council for that postcode. They then check the details against their electoral role and make sure you're elligible.

Once registered, you have 3 options to vote. By post, in person or by proxy. Each of those has its own form again which has to be checked again before you can "actually" vote.

Its a long drawn out process which I suspect puts a lot of expats off..But I'm registered and have voted...

No he doesn't. He went there in 1987 and has never voted in the UK.

[juice]

Ah, well fair enough...

[Shay HTFC]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_20...

I can't tell if the photo at the top of the page is of Mirpur or Bradford.

[Marf]

Shay HTFC said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_20...

I can't tell if the photo at the top of the page is of Mirpur or Bradford.

You can clearly see a blue sky, must be Mirpur

[Police State]

poo at Paul's said:

Couldn't see this posted on here, but saw this on early doors news this morning.

WTF is all this about? Are these peope living there, or on holidays. SOme allegedly are signing mutiple forms, presumably in other's names.

It's outrageous. I suspect the constituencies involved are not "Middle England" either!

WTF do we all have to put up with this crap.

Nothing you can do about it. They are Brits when they are here and Pakistanis when they are there. To them it is just one big community living in two countries and having the benefits that both offer; you know, Corruption, dishonesty, tribalism.

Mass immigration, worse thing to ever befall this country.
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Edited by Police State on Saturday 1st May 15:38

[Marf]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Why would that be and which way would the votes be rigged IYO?

[Marf]

Understood, so basically those voting on behalf of others will simply put their preference instead of the preference of the person being voted for?

[Pesty]

Bring in people from the third world and they bring with them third world practices shocker

[Babu 01]

Pesty said:

Bring in people from the third world and they bring with them third world practices shocker

These chaps from whereveristan have lot to learn:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2387698570...

[Mojooo]

I have heard many a people discussing using the postal votes of people in their family that would not have been used otherwise. Its probably quite rife TBH.

Maybe one way of cutting out the type of postal fraud that is mentioned above is not to send them forms in blatantly obvious envelopes!

[Andy Zarse]

If you want a rigger for a neighbour vote Labour!

[Bing o]

Nothing good has ever come out of that part of the world.

I'm not surprised certain parties want to send them all home.

[5unny]

How ironic.

For years we have gone to the Middle East, Asia and Africa and tried to bring them 'democracy' and a fairer electoral system (through money, bombs and 'diplomacy') and now these very same people are bringing their form of democracy over here and we are unwilling to do anything about it.

Edited by 5unny on Monday 3rd May 11:04

[7mike]

Marf said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Why would that be and which way would the votes be rigged IYO?

Reckon you could get a good curry in Brum.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article37...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4410743.stm

..and in East london

http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towe...

and in Blackburn

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2005/04/sun...

and where else, but bradford!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/02/pos...

[Turbo5]

7mike said:

Marf said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Why would that be and which way would the votes be rigged IYO?

Reckon you could get a good curry in Brum.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article37...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4410743.stm

..and in East london

http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towe...

and in Blackburn

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2005/04/sun...

and where else, but bradford!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/02/pos...

and in Burnley

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/6178...

[anonymous-user]

Other than expenses is there any other benefit of being a councillor?