Elections in the UK - Issue 8

[ukyp]

By Paul

http://www.ukyouthparliament.org.uk/203361.html

Our government has of course been disgusted at the low level of voting in the UK – they attempted to solve this with the introduction of new methods of voting to “open up the franchise”.

We now have postal and proxy voting, provisions for those who cannot prove their eligibility to vote [tendered voting] and now talk about evoting [online, by phone, etc].

Unfortunately, this was the wrong way to tackle the problem – it has opened up wider the potential for fraud in the UK electoral system.

The Council of Europe considers British elections as “very vulnerable to fraud” (there have been at least 42 convictions for electoral fraud in the UK in the period 2000–2007). How can we take the moral high ground internationally when our voting system is fundamentally unsafe?

We must protect our electoral integrity, otherwise we might be invaded by the USA to protect democracy! I demand that mainland UK is subject to the same voting regulations as Northern Ireland, measures that have increased confidence in the electoral system – and accuracy of the electoral register.

Public confidence in the electoral process in the UK was the lowest in Western Europe in 1997 – let’s fix it!