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August 27, 2004

Democracy

The Electoral Commission has completed its review of all-postal voting and concludes that it should no longer be used in British elections. The report doesn't rule out postal voting using a revision of the system recently piloted, but states that voters should retain the option of voting a polling stations.

So the Electoral Commission has recognised and confirmed what many suspected, that the - in some cases marginal - gains in turnout were offset by the allegations of electoral fraud and abuse that diminshed public confidence in the system. It remains to be seen whether or not John Prescott and Charlie Falconer will heed the Commission's findings, as it it was their departments who were responsible for pushing the trials so aggressively in the first place.

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Posted by Clive on August 27, 2004 12:37 PM in the category Old Stuff

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