[Closed] Electoral Fraud?

And to clarify, no I'm not talking about the normal politicians shiny BS type stuff that you get at General Elections, I'm talking about the completely deceitful mis-truths that sit behind and out of sight of each claim 🙁

Par for the course. It would be far more shocking if you found a leaflet that contained accurate, substantiated claims.

After about 10 seconds on Google and 30 second their website.:

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/complaints

Nothing then
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About time that was changed. BS for aspirations and what they claim they'll do is one thing. Lies and distortion of current / recent fact should not be allowed.

"It's always been like that" isn't good enough

There is something fundamentally wrong about leafletting a day or two before the big event. Any old unsubstantiated crap can be, and is, included with no time left for debate or fact checking.

I get the feeling both sides are letting all this crap ride so they can then mount a legal challenge if they end up on the losing side.

I received a leaflet yesterday and every single item is deliberately misleading. At face value it would appear to present a compelling case, but every single piece is built on a falsehood.

was it the daily mail?

was it the daily mail?

It was the bilingual version of the Vote Leave flyer that has upset Nissan, GE, Vauxhall and Unilever. They can take legal action because of the unauthorised use of their brand image.

We can only mark "x" - which is not enough if the "x"es are being marked on the basis of false information. There should be a mechanism for politicians to be called to account - and not just the ballot box

I received a [i]Vote Leave[/i] pamphlet through the post this morning packed to the gills with untruths such as :

"The EU costs us £350 million per week"
"The EU court will be in charge of our laws"

And countless other inflammatory headlines to stir the soul of gullible voters.......

Promoted by Matthew Elliott of the vote leave campaign

****ing cockweasels the lot of them

We can only mark "x" - which is not enough if the "x"es are being marked on the basis of false information. There should be a mechanism for politicians to be called to account - and not just the ballot box

Shirley, if you give that much of a toss about the junk that gets shoved through the letterbox, it's up to you to do proper research, not accept the veracity of what some random bit of junk mail says.
I've learned over many years that it's always possible to see when politicians lie because their lips move, and anything they write down isn't worth the cost of the sheet of paper it's written on.
And I also have zero trust in any comment about the EU and the referendum made by international banks or business conglomerates, because all they care about is their profits, and have less faith in their financial forecasts than I do in the Met Offiice's ability to forecast more than an hour ahead.
Then there's the likes of George Soros, someone who will make statements about Stirling falling, hoping to make many millions by betting that it will fall because the markets believe him when he says it'll happen; he made £680million betting against Stirling in 1992, through FUD: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
It's what these hedge fund parasites do, to leech off millions of pounds/dollars.
Cynical, moi?

I'm more concerned about the bags of useful postal votes.

I happen to like all the leaflets. They work well in the bottom of the bbq chimney.

[quote=CountZero ]Then there's the likes of George Soros, someone who will make statements about Stirling falling, hoping to make many millions by betting that it will fall because the markets believe him when he says it'll happen; he made £680million betting against Stirling in 1992, through FUD: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
It's what these hedge fund parasites do, to leech off millions of pounds/dollars.
Cynical, moi?

Not at all - I assumed he had a vested interest when he came out with that