POLICE CAN NOT FIND ANY POSTAL BALLOT FRAUD.

I have mentioned in many posts before about my worries over postal voting fraud, and here is the proof that the police are doing nothing. It is funny how Labour are crying foul this time, yet Labour have it in their election handbook as a method for keeping the seats, by fair means or foul, they are told to make sure they have every Labour voter registered for postal voting.

There has been several by elections this year which have shown incredulous victories for Labour. This report shows that the police are doing nothing.

Source Birmingham Post

Birmingham’s political leaders have reacted with shock that police have found no evidence of postal vote fraud at an inner city council election earlier this year. Police were called to investigate after more than 400 ballot papers were rejected from the Sparkbrook by-election in September. It was the highest number of suspicious votes in a Birmingham election in five years and prompted calls for postal voting on demand to be scrapped.

But in a statement West Midlands Police announced: “Officers from West Midlands Police Economic Crime Team have conducted extensive enquiries with the affected voters and at this time have found no evidence of organised voting fraud.” Respect Party candidate Shokat Ali beat his Labour rival Mohammed Azim by under 300 votes to win the seat. City politicians were shocked at the high number of rejected ballots, out of a total of 6,000 votes casts, say they cannot believe that fraud was not involved.

Labour leader Sir Albert Bore said: “I find it surprising that police cannot find evidence of fraud. It is hard to believe, with this number of votes, that there was not some form of organised activity. Whatever the police say, doubts will remain.”

Respect leader Councillor Salma Yaqoob, who raised concerns over postal votes before the polling day, said: “Given the scale I am a little surprised. But when the fraud is through blackmail, or behind closed doors, it can be hard to detect. The only way to guarantee it is to scrap postal voting on demand,” she added.

John Hemming, the Liberal Democrat MP who led the successful court action against Labour vote fraud in 2004, said that police were not equipped to investigate the issue. He said: “It is a very specialised area and police do not have a good track record in Birmingham. I offered my assistance but they did not take me up on the offer.”

The Yardley MP pointed out that in 2004 when he made a complaint about the Aston vote forging factory police dismissed it labelling the case Operation Gripe. This led to Mr Hemming’s private prosecution at an election court which found evidence of vote rigging on an industrial scale and in which the judge, Richard Mawrey QC, likened Birmingham to a ‘banana republic’