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Individual Voter Registration

Proceeding contribution from Sheila Gilmore (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 16 January 2012. It occurred during Opposition day on Individual Voter Registration.
I do not necessarily accept the proposition that fraud is a major issue in Britain, but the reason for making the suggested changes within this time scale—that they were so important that they had to be speeded up—does not get away from the fraud that can be perpetrated, for example, by someone simply turning up at a polling station and saying that they are somebody else. In a flat-share situation, somebody may not have registered, but, if somebody else has and they have moved away, the former can turn up and say, ““I'm Joe Bloggs, and here I am.”” As long as they are the right gender, they are able to vote, so if fraud is such a major issue should we not look at what happens when people turn up at the polling station?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
538 c490 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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