Can We Campaign For People To Register For Postal Vote

I'm not doubting the data but how would they know if electoral fraud had actually been committed? They must only pick it up if someone attempts to vote after someone else has already voted using their details but people voting using someone's vote they know isn't going to vote could go undetected.

I'm not expecting the figure to be significant enough for it to be something that needed a change to the system but I assume it is higher than 16.
It's much higher than 16. One ward in Whitefield, Brierfield had 25 or so votes disallowed in one hit because the registrar didn't believe that the person in Oldham applying for them all had valid reason to vote on their behalf. The Mayor of Burnley, going back 25 years or so, registered his parents to vote even though they had a combined 2 weeks' stay in the UK. Neither of those cases appeared on the crime stats.

This photo id stuff is a dead waste of time, though. Yes, there are cases of personation (which the poll clerks are instructed to ignore) but the real issue is postal votes. One, because that's where the fraud can most easily be committed; two, because introducing the priniciple of postal votes means the abolition of the secret ballot. Neither of which is a whit helped by voter id.
 
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