Article: POLLING DAY GOES HI-TECH THIS YEAR; Voting on-line is next step.(News)

Article: Anger after postal votes never appear.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  May 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... calls from electors who applied for postal votes, sent off the necessary paperwork ... election that only 40,000 of the 60,000 postal votes registered in Birmingham found their ... council, which outsourced delivery of postal votes to a private firm, insisted that the ...

Article: Forensic tests find postal votes in local election ...
Evening Standard - London;  January 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... handwriting expert who analysed a sample of postal votes and applications for postal votes in Tower Hamlets found that almost 13 per ... says that nearly 3,000 applications for postal votes came in by hand less than four hours before ...

Article: Council carried postal votes around in plastic ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  February 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... so overwhelmed by the huge number of postal votes cast at last year's Birmingham City ... an 'informal process' for checking postal votes did not comply with rules set out in ... People Act. Claims that up to 3,000 postal votes were fiddled in Bordesley Green are ...

Article: Mystery of postal votes lost in city.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  July 24, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... dale@mrn.co.uk - Hundreds of postal votes issued for last month's Birmingham ... There are people who applied for postal votes who never received them. Whether they ... was not to blame for the nonarrival of postal votes. A spokesman said: 'As far as we ...

Article: Police poised to bring charges over postal votes ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  October 23, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... investigation into claims that hundreds of postal votes were stolen from blocks of flats in ... view of the SPU that widespread use of postal votes has opened up a whole new area to be ... subjected to ''sharp practice'' where postal votes are concerned.' He said that voters ...

Article: Postal votes open gates to electoral ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  June 9, 2004 ;     697 words ... ... residents and stealing thousands of postal votes. His comments were backed by a leading ... incidents concerning alleged misuse of postal votes in Birmingham, was caused by the appearance ... with a bag containing scores of blank postal votes. Coun Ali Khan said: 'The Labour ...

Article: Postal votes drive defended.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  April 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... to encourage supporters to apply for postal votes via its campaign headquarters in the ... centre. "The facility does not handle postal votes, it simply directs applications for postal votes to the appropriate local electoral authority ...