I certainly would not tolerate the fraudulent registration of even one postal vote, but how can it be right to reduce access to postal votes for the many because of a few examples of fraud? No investigation, including those by the Electoral Commission and the Association of Chief Police Officers, has discovered extensive fraud. We know that it happens, and we know that it happens in particular places, but surely the job of the police is to find out where it happens and make specific proposals to deal with it, not to disfranchise the many.
Electoral Registration and Administration Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Siobhain McDonagh
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 23 May 2012.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Electoral Registration and Administration Bill.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
545 c1195 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Librarians' tools
Timestamp
2023-11-28 14:54:24 +0000
URI
http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2012-05-23/12052368000591
In Indexing
http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2012-05-23/12052368000591
In Solr
https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2012-05-23/12052368000591