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May 11, 2022 · 317 cases of alleged electoral fraud were investigated by the police during 2021. There were two convictions and two acquittals. Police issued cautions in one case. This table shows the number of cases of alleged fraud reported to us by the police for elections held in 2021. Election.
Overview. In the past 5 years, there is no evidence of large-scale electoral fraud. Of the 1,462 cases of alleged electoral fraud reported to police between 2019 and 2023, 11 led to convictions and the police issued 4 cautions.
May 9, 2021 · Two key themes have emerged from the results of Thursday's elections declared so far. First, ruling parties have done well, rewarded perhaps by voters who, thanks to the vaccine roll-out,...
May 17, 2021 · 21 May 2021. The forthcoming Elections Bill will have a package of measures to tackle different types of electoral fraud – including personation in polling stations, postal voting personation and interference, proxy voting fraud, intimidation and undue influence.
- More votes than registered voters. President Trump has repeated unproven claims that battleground states have recorded more votes than registered voters - it's a rumour that has been circulating in various forms since the election.
- Unexplained surges in Democrat votes. There've been a number of allegations from President Trump and others about votes for his rival, Joe Biden, suddenly appearing in large numbers during the counting process.
- Votes flipped from Trump to Biden. President Trump's legal team also repeated a claim made by him that there had been an issue with the voting system used in some battleground states which supposedly allowed millions of votes to be flipped from him to his rival, Mr Biden.
- The voting machines are owned by Democrats. President Trump has said the "Radical Left owned Dominion Voting Systems" with his legal team pointing to ties with Bill and Hillary Clinton and other Democratic politicians.
May 12, 2021 · Electoral fraud is a crime that strikes at a core principle of our democracy - that everyone’s vote matters. In our current system, there is undeniable potential for electoral fraud and the perception of this undermines public confidence in our democracy.
Jul 7, 2021 · In this paper we report on the results of a novel small-scale survey of people in Britain in which respondents reported some of their direct experiences of electoral fraud in recent national elections. The results indicate that the rates of electoral fraud are currently around six to eight per cent, but that this rises for members of some ...
