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Postal
Voting
Postal voting is a massive gateway to
electoral fraud
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H.S. Chapman Society invited Richard Mawrey QC to
Australia in February 2010. He had presided as
Election Commissioner in an election court,
concerning a Birmingham Council election, which
exposed massive, systematic and organised fraud of
at least 2,500 fraudulent votes. It did so because
the Labor Rudd government had predicated a review of
our entire electoral system in its Electoral
Reform Green Paper Strengthening Australian
Democracy ‘there is no evidence of widespread
subversion of electoral laws in Australia.’
It is therefore relevant for the
Chapman Society to
consider particulars of the fraud and malpractice,
exposed by Richard Mawrey QC in his trials of two
Petitions concerning wards of the Birmingham
Council, first Bordesley Green and then Aston,
between 21st February and 22nd
March 2005, delivered in a single judgment handed
down on 4th of April 2005.
The allegations were that “the
Labour
Party Respondents and their agents engaged in
massive, systematic and organised fraud whereby
literally thousands of bogus Labour votes were
recorded and counted.”
In Richard Mawrey QC’s
Afterword
to his judgment he said:
Section 714 “In this judgment I have set out at
length what has clearly been shown to be the
weakness of the current law relating to postal
votes. As some parts of this judgment may be seen as
critical of the Government, I wish to make it clear
that the responsibility for the present
unsatisfactory situation must be shared. All
political parties welcomed and supported postal
voting on demand. Until very recently, none has
treated electoral fraud as representing a problem."
Section 715 “Apart from the Electoral
Commission, whose role I have described above, the
only voices raised against the laxity of the system
have been in the media, in particular The Times
newspaper, and the tendency of politicians of
all Parties has been to dismiss these warnings as
scaremongering."
Section 715 “In the course of
preparing my judgment, my attention was drawn to
what I am told is an official Government statement
about postal voting which I hope I quote correctly:
“There are no proposals to change the rules
governing election procedures for the next election,
including those for postal voting. The systems
already in place to deal with the allegation of
electoral fraud are clearly working."
Section 716 “Anybody, who has sat
through the case I have just tried and listened to
evidence of electoral fraud that would disgrace a
banana republic, would find this statement
surprising. To assert that: ‘The systems, already in
place to deal with the allegations of electoral
fraud are clearly working’, indicate a state not
simply of complacency but of denial."
Section 717 “The systems to deal with
fraud are not working well. They are not working
badly. The fact is that there are no systems
to deal realistically with fraud and there never
have been. Until there are, fraud will continue
unabated.”
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Australia was once unique for the world's
first secret ballot system
that was adopted world wide was the
Australian secret ballot
now it is unique
as the only country in the world
where politicians are allowed
to interfere in elections as they do by
canvassing for postal votes,
in ways that have sadly destroyed its former
secrecy and now
it is the unique for the wrong reason.
Destruction of Australia’s Secret Ballot
System 1990 – 2010
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"That the electoral system is open to
manipulation is beyond question
... Fraudulent enrolment is almost impossible to prevent."
(NSW Electoral Commissioners, Messrs R.
Cundy and Ian Dickson, NSW Government
Inquiry 1989) |
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