29
April, 2015
A
van carrying more than 200,000 ballot papers destined for two
constituencies in East Sussex has been stolen.
The
papers were due to arrive in Eastbourne and Hastings and Rye ahead of
the 7 May general election, but were taken in the Dagenham area of
London before the van arrived.
Metropolitan
Police do not believe the van was purposely targeted because of its
contents, but it instead was merely a coincidence.
More
than 70,000 of the papers were meant for Hastings. The council has
spoken to the Electoral Commission and said it has taken steps to
ensure the ballot papers will now not be used in the upcoming
elections and for replacement ones to be delivered.
A
spokesperson said: "We've spoken to the Metropolitan Police and
it very much seems like it was a case of mistaken identity – we
don't believe they deliberately targeted the ballot papers. I expect
there are some very disappointed thieves out there somewhere.
"We
will be able to tell if the papers used were stolen. The ones that we
will be using will be different to the ones that were stolen."
A
further 130,000 papers due for Eastbourne were also lost as the van
was taken. The council also said they will be printing a different
colour batch of replacement papers in order to prevent fraud.
A
spokesperson added: "One unavoidable anomaly is that the
previously issued postal vote ballot papers are on the original
colours and can be posted or handed in at a polling station right up
to close of poll on 7 May. However, these ballots have to be returned
with the associated paperwork and go through a rigorous scanning
process separate to the other ballots. They are not placed in ballot
boxes at the polling stations.
"We
have taken advice from the Electoral Commission and are confident
that the steps we have implemented will ensure the accurate and
successful completion of the elections on 7 May."
I
will leave you with comments from Lee Nelson of UK Collapse Radio
You
ain't seen nothing yet! These election results have been no shock for
me, been saying that tories will win all year. Cameron was sneaky
enough to lie until blue in the face that he's stopped an economic
collapse, well he didn't and hasn't. What has kept our country afloat
is a nation of consumers and wage slaves, rise in immigration (again,
part of the long term economic plan) and using sanctions and tests to
force people into low paid menial work, and lets not forget the £375
billion dumped into the banking system. If you think the last five
years were bad then you're gonna love the next five.
Which puts us
well on track for the next rounds of violence and public anger, more
austerity and more division within the communities and country as the
country implodes.
This
all changes nothing in relation to collapse of human industrial
civilisation, the push to infinite growth will carry on regardless
and will continue to destroy what little chance of survival we as a
species could of hoped for. We have already taken a big step away
from the opportunity of a controlled demolition and we are at the
mercy of mother nature, and we are gonna lose.
So
many people walk around with their heads in the sand, don't know and
don't care about what's happening in the world around us, to busy
with their own self centered little ego tripping lives or to dumb
from listening to ill informed peers......
There
were several critics from within the Conservative party of how the
secretive Australian was masterminding their campaign. Not any more.
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