These plans are hasty, pricey, dishonest about the issue they claim to be tackling – and seem to be mainly about suppressing the non-Tory vote.
Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.
Some good things, a few bad ones, some absences – and an opportunity missed not so much to level up Britain as to level with voters.
I very much hope that six years since the corrupt and flawed election, the residents of Tower Hamlets will be able to vote safely and securely.
After the election, we suggested five ways of securing the Party’s electoral position. Eight months on, how is the Government doing?
The Electoral Commission stumbles from one crisis to another – while proven voter fraud goes unpunished.
The Public Administration Committee would take a 3000-word document only. Here is Moynihan’s complete take.
It is harder to take out a library book or collect a parcel at a post office than it is to vote in someone else’s name.
In April 2020, Lutfur Rahman will have his disqualification lifted. He will be free to stand in the 2022 local elections. Will the police have learned anything?
It’s no good talking tough on ID schemes alone when in-person impersonation is such a small part of the problem.
The internal and external threats to the integrity of our elections have intensified, but the regulator responsible does not appear to have upped its game in response.
Will it be bad news for democracy in Tower Hamlets in 2018? The old tactics of toxic allegations in anonymous leaflets are being seen again.
The Crown Prosecution Service and the police are still failing to uphold democracy in Tower Hamlets.
Call 0800 555 111 – or use the online form at Crimestoppers-uk.org, where you won’t have to give your personal details.
Consider the case of the man whose death was registered in Bangladesh on election day. Miraculously, his vote was recorded thousands of miles away in Tower Hamlets.