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One Tory MP is so incensed on the scale of defeat suffered by his occasion in final week’s native elections, that he has known as for postal votes to be banned.
Brendan Clarke-Smith, Tory MP for Bassetlaw, posted on X yesterday: “Postal voting – it’s time to scrap it.” He was quoted within the Telegraph expressing considerations ‘regarding the abuse of postal votes and the potential for fraud’.
Lately the Tories have tried to alter the electoral system of their favour, by introducing reforms comparable to voter ID legal guidelines and likewise altering electoral boundaries.
Clarke’s name for a ban on postal votes additionally comes after a sequence of false far-right conspiracy theories had been unfold on social media, suggesting that the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan had one way or the other received re-election via harvesting postal votes.
The Tory MP’s name to ban postal votes may backfire, as was the case with voter ID when Jacob Rees-Mogg conceded that it had backfired on his personal occasion, admitting that it had “made it onerous for our personal voters” to participate in England’s native elections final yr.
Adam Bienkov of Byline Occasions highlighting how an ‘Oxford University study from final yr discovered that supporters of left-leaning candidates are the least prone to vote by submit’.
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead
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