London: Muslim voters in fraud row 'forgot how they signed registration forms'

London: Muslim voters in fraud row 'forgot how they signed registration forms'

Via the Evening Standard:
A senior official at Tower Hamlets has rejected allegations of postal vote fraud � claiming Muslim voters simply forgot how they signed registration forms.

Isabella Freeman, borough legal chief, spoke in a bid to explain a spike in rejected ballots following a by-election. The Met has launched an investigation into claims of voter fraud.

Today the �120,000-a-year monitoring officer was accused of failing to �face up to reality� and accept voter fraud is on her doorstep � ahead of tomorrow�s London-wide elections for the next Mayor and the 25-seat London Assembly. Asked about an increase in rejected postal votes from 10 per cent to 14 per cent, Ms Freeman said this was because �voters have forgotten how they signed the registered application in the first place ... this is not unusual in relation to Muslim voters.�

The council would not comment on whether she was referring to language problems, or the use of different surnames within the local community.
(source)

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