Blunkett to liberals: Gotcha!
BBC News: Blunkett urges vote fraud action
The former home secretary described the case in which six Labour councillors were found guilty of postal vote fraud as “totally outrageous”.
He called for individual rather than household voter registration - backed up by a national ID card scheme.
See what he’s done there? If you oppose ID cards you now also oppose measures to prevent electoral fraud.
By opposing attacks on our democratic freedoms, we actually support attacks on our democratic freedoms.
As Keanu Reeves once said: “Whoa!”
Posted on April 7th, 2005 at 8:41 am
Blunkett did not manage to convince
anyone, not even the hand picked
Question Time audience that identity cards and a “clean database” would somehow eliminate postal
election fraud, where neither the id card nor the person are present to be checked.
See the transcript or watch the Question Time programe whle it is still available online:
http://www.spy.org.uk/spyblog/archives/2005/04/labour_postal_v.html