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Oral question asked in the House of Lords, by Lord Henley (Conservative). It was answered on Tuesday, 19 January 2010.


General Election: Electoral Malpractice

Question
My Lords, in an earlier answer, the noble Lord told us that personation was a major problem in electoral fraud. Is he really saying that it is a worse problem than the fraud that we have in postal voting?
Answer

The number of cases where fraud is alleged in elections is incredibly small, and was even smaller in 2009 than in previous years. Of that very small number of complaints made, a considerable proportion was about personation.


Secondary information

Type
Oral question
Reference
716 c877 
Session
2009-10
Oral question type
Supplementary
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
Fraud General elections
Link
View this Oral question on www.publications.parliament.uk