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Article: Fed: Electoral fraud widespread, report to show
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- June 15, 2001
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AAP General News (Australia)
06-15-2001
Fed: Electoral fraud widespread, report to show
BRISBANE, June 15 AAP - Electoral fraud was widespread and easy to commit, a federal
inquiry is expected to report next week.
Chairman of the joint standing committee on electoral matters Christopher Pyne said
the report, to be tabled in federal parliament on Monday, would recommend a wholesale
clean-up of state and federal electoral rolls.
"One of the things that we discovered in evidence is the impression is being left that
there are a few isolated incidents of electoral offences and it is not a very serious
problem," Mr Pyne told ABC radio today.
"But I have to say that having had a look at the ...