So how do you know how much fraud there was? That is the point, it can, and does go unnoticed. Where there was trial of the scheme, the potential fraudsters will have avoided it. Therefore lack of suspected fraud in that trial is meaningless. It could even be seen as a sign that the scheme worked.
Tower Hamlets election fraud mayor Lutfur Rahman removed from office
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Their lawyers made a series of allegations, including "personation" in postal voting and at polling stations and ballot paper tampering.
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And for the government - should the Law Commission be asked to look at making it easier to challenge elections if there is a suspicion of fraud?
It took four local individuals in this case to risk a legal bill of hundreds of thousands of pounds to get this election overturned.
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Maybe that the real reason for lack of discovered cases.