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Hi-tech computer voting is now the order-of-the-day in America. In October 2002 the US Administration passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) which authorised $4 billion for states to use the Direct Recording Election system (DRE) equipment which would have to meet certain standards (set by the Act) by the year 2006. At which […]

[…] a manner of their choosing.’ (1) Carol Passmore, a retired nurse aged 54, answered her doorbell and found herself confronted by a Labour activist armed with her vote, which – along with 29 others – had been sent to a house several streets away, the house of a Labour candidate’s cousin. Ms Passmore was […]

[…] an 18-wheeler. The driver – an African-American clergyman called Athan Gibbs – was killed outright. Gibbs, 57, was the President and CEO of a company called Tru Vote International.(1) Gibbs founded TruVote after witnessing the electoral debacle in Florida’s 2001 presidential election. He spent the next three years and $2 million on developing and […]

[…] Lodge, Bedford, a care home for the long-term mentally ill. And the great thing about being in care with a mental illness is that you can still vote. Six men at Bunyan Lodge had apparently given permission for votes to be cast on their behalf. (2) Their votes had gone in pairs to relatives […]

[…] the secrecy of the ballot box by monitoring all votes cast for British Communists. On p. 419 I explained that most people in Britain believe that their vote is sacrosanct, that nobody can possibly discover how you voted. Not so. When you enter a polling station your name is automatically checked on the voters’ […]

[…] in Europe and party whips, plus the negotiation of a secret alliance with the 68-strong pro-European wing of the Parliamentary Labour Party to ensure a successful parliamentary vote. (10) Conservative Associations were targeted by Conservative Central Office, the Conservative Research Department and the Conservative Political Centre through constituency chairs, party agents and officers. The […]

[…] since 1923); or that the Tories’ 154 net gains in 1924 came from Labour (two thirds were from the Liberals); or that the increase in the Tory vote came from former Labour voters. Labour’s numerical vote increased by 24%: if Zinoviev was meant to reduce the Labour vote, it was a total failure. Labour’s […]

[…] Johnson (charged with sending fake explosive devices through the post) and Roger Denny (in embarrassment over a soft drugs offence). Thus, even with the imprisoned Pearce’s proxy vote, the ‘Flag’ tendency now only had seven Directorate votes: Acton, Anderson, Brons, the veteran Tom Mundy, Paul Nash, Pearce and Wingfield.(11) On 6 May Griffin decided […]