Guardian journalist Helen Pidd noted some disturbing responses from potential voters in the Westwood area of Oldham which once again calls into doubt the mass use of postal and proxy votes, a system which offers few safeguards to prevent manipulation and electoral fraud. The electoral fraud review published in 2014 although naming Oldham as an area at risk of “alleged electoral fraud” concentrated on voters attending polling station and ignored postal voting.
Just experienced that byelection hardy perennial: postal voters who have already voted but don't know for whom. Bloc vote much…
— Helen Pidd (@helenpidd) November 27, 2015
A dismaying number of voters I met in Oldham today can't speak English despite living there a decade or more. But they're voting Labour.
— Helen Pidd (@helenpidd) November 27, 2015
Most of the Labour voters I've met in Westwood, a mostly Asian area of Oldham, haven't heard of Jeremy Corbyn.
— Helen Pidd (@helenpidd) November 27, 2015
Labour Party gender Segregated electioneering in Oldham.