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Electoral Registration and Administration Bill

In a recent parliamentary question, I asked how many successful prosecutions of electoral fraud take place every year, and the answer came back, one or two, but 36% of the British public think that the situation is worse than that. Part of the reason for that disparity could be that MPs and Ministers stand up in the Chamber and on the news and say that electoral fraud is a terrible problem, but really it is not and there are very few cases. Yet the whole gist of the Bill—

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
547 c338 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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