The counting of any postal votes seen by postal vote agents when the envelopes are opened is an offence in UK elections under the Representation of the People Act 1983 and was an offence in the Scottish Referendum under the…
Monthly Archives: February 2015
Indyref Postal Vote Sampling: 9 things we know & 1 we don’t.
Posted in postal voting Tagged with: electoral fraud, humza yousaf, john mcternan, postal vote sampling, ruth davidson, scottish independence referendum
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Putting Voters First?
The Electoral Commission was created following the recommendations of the Fifth Report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life produced by Lord O’Neill in 1998 which argued for “a totally independent and authoritative Election Commission with widespread executive and…
Posted in postal voting Tagged with: electoral commission, postal vote counting, scottish independence referendum
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Labour’s Non-Denial Denial of Postal Vote Sampling
Last Sunday and the Sunday before the Sunday Herald reported that Susan Dalgety, recently appointed as Jim Murphy’s Director of Communications, had tweeted comments implying she knew the results of postal vote sampling in the referendum. Tom Gordon reported that…
Posted in postal voting Tagged with: non-denial denial, postal ballots, postal vote counting, postal vote sampling, scottish referendum, susan dalgety
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