UK General Election 2005

• About My Vote
• Electoral Commission: Absent voting fraud a code of practice for political parties on handling ballot paper 
• Birmingham local election fraud trial, Judge upheld vote-rigging claims, 4th April 2005, and suggested it was part of a city-wide fraud on the part of the Labour Party
• Broadcasting Act 1990 has a section on Party Political Broadcasts
• Electoral Commission: All-postal voting should be made the norm at all local elections throughout Great Britain The Shape of Elections to Come, 2003 
• Electoral Commission: All-postal voting should not be used at UK statutory elections Delivering Democracy: review of June 2004 elections 
• The Electoral Commission has information on a variety of issues, including:
  • New code of conduct on handling postal ballots
  • Policy ans Law
  • Registration of parties
  • Controls on donations
  • Statutory election reports including controls on campaign spending
• Electoral Commission key recommendations for legislative change accepted by the Government
• The Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002: An assessment of its first year in operation 
• British Helsinki Human Rights Group: Electoral Reform in Britain
• Factsheet on ballot secrecy 
• Fixed-Term Parliament Bill, March 2001
• The Funding of Political Parties in the United Kingdom
• Government response to concern about fraud, 30th April 2005
• How to fix a postal vote - by trial judge, Dominic Kennedy
• How to rig the system ..., Matthew Parris
• British Helsinki Human Rights Group: Is Britain Heading for Fraudulent Elections?
• Keeping your vote when living abroad
• Local Elections (Free Delivery of Election Addresses) Bill, March 2001
• MORI poll on Perceptions of electoral fraud in Great Britain 
• Observers to monitor UK election
• Ofcom rules on party political and referendum broadcasts. These rules replace 4.1 of the ITC Programme Code and 2.2 of the Radio Authority News and Current Affairs Code
• Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, election observations in the UK (devolved administration elections)
• Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology: Online Voting
• Outline history of the right to vote
• House of Commons Fact Sheet on Parliamentary Elections, M7 
• Example of a Parliamentary Writ authorising a constituency election
• Electoral Reform Society: Piloting Alternative Voting Methods in the 2003 Local Elections in England
• Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000
  • Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill Explanatory Notes, December 1999
• Postal Ballot information on About My Vote
• Postal Voting blog
• Postal voting is an invitation to fraud, says judge, Dominic Kennedy & Jill Sherman
• The Ofcom Programme Code on Impartiality for broadcasters. Also, section on Party Political and Parliamentary Broadcasting
• Registration of Political Parties Act 1998
• Electoral Reform Society: Report on the 2001 election
• Report on the role of the marked electoral register , part of Electoral Commission review of electoral law and practice 
• Representation of the People Act 1991
• Representation of the People Act 1993
• Representation of the People Act 2000
  • Representation of the People Bill Explanatory Notes, November1999.
• Too late to protect general election from voting fraud, Dominic Kennedy
• Vote Early, Vote Often, Nick Davies

British General Election 2005: Election Law and Voting Fraud

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© Richard Kimber
Last Modified: 13 Feb 10