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Asked if the Prime Minister was confident that the measures the Government was taking in attempting to tackle electoral corruption and fraud, the PMOS said in terms of that you do have to look back at what has been done in the past. New measures were introduced in time for the May 2006 elections that worked well in deterring fraud and we are confident that further measures in the Electoral Administration Act of 2006 will ensure that the 2007 elections are even more secure. This was a matter that under constant review.

Asked if the Government was at all concerned over the possible issues with recent electronic voting, the PMOS said what the Government was anxious to do is keep up to date with all the possible mechanisms to encourage people to vote. At the same time we try and ensure the safeguards are there to ensure that the system is secure and that is why we work very closely with the Electoral Commission and others, but those safeguards are there and this is a matter that is kept under constantly under review.

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"Even more secure" (P.M) laugh! thought i’d never start.
Postal voting fraud questions asked, but we have now moved on from that cock-up to the next, over spoilt ballot papers in Scotland (basic mistakes on the layout of forms + another expensive I.T.system which does not work). Postal fraud in the last elections resulted in a High Court Judge saying our electoral system was, Quote: "Enough to shame a Banana Republic". These Politicians obviously have not got a clue about information technology so i suggest they stick to the tried, trusted and tested method of balloting, your name is cross referenced with the electoral list then you use an H.B. pencil to place an X on a piece of paper against the candidate of your choice these are then counted by a machine that works (people) sounds logical to me, "if it ain’t broke don’t fix it", NOT: "it work’s fine so we’ll **** It".
Comment by john.L — 5 May 2007 on 1:06 pm | Link
"Even more secure" (P.M) laugh! thought i’d never start.
Postal voting fraud questions asked, but we have now moved on from that cock-up to the next, over spoilt ballot papers in Scotland (basic mistakes on the layout of forms + another expensive I.T.system which does not work). Postal fraud in the last elections resulted in a High Court Judge saying our electoral system was, Quote: "Enough to shame a Banana Republic". These Politicians obviously have not got a clue about information technology so i suggest they stick to the tried, trusted and tested method of balloting, your name is cross referenced with the electoral list then you use an H.B. pencil to place an X on a piece of paper against the candidate of your choice these are then counted by a machine that works (people) sounds logical to me, "if it ain’t broke don’t fix it", NOT: "it work’s fine so we’ll **** It".
Comment by john.L — 5 May 2007 on 1:08 pm | Link

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