Exclusive : Kerry McCarthy Illegal Postal Votes Tweets
Guido just got off the phone with Electoral Services in Bristol East a couple of hours ago, after being disturbed and puzzled to see a tweet about the contents of postal votes published a short time ago by Kerry McCarthy, Labour’s Twitter Tsar and candidate in Bristol East.
As it was re-tweeted about the twittersphere with queries as to whether this was legal, Kerry quickly deleted the tweet – before it could be stored in the Google cache, but not before Tweetminster picked it up.
The rules are that postal votes are opened in the presence of every candidate’s agent. They are opened face down, but agents can get a peek in. Because announcing these results prematurely can affect the outcome of the whole election, however, they’re under strict confidentiality rules. Bristol Electoral Services are now looking into it as a matter of urgency…
How many votes for the Bigot Party?
Ohhhh matron!! She’s not as pretty as Nadine
lol
go on you Hammers! lol
I hope you spotted I’m in there with 9 votes.
It’s still there on the Labour Party Twitter page. http://twitter.com/UKLabourParty
It’s still there!! Quick, RT it!
Although a small sample is that not a bit obvious that there’s been some tampering going on with those numbers?!
The most damning tweet?
“Great news for homeowners”. What a silly bint. Inflation is never good for the economy.
Anon, now all is revealed as to why the Labourites are so keen on postal votes. I would be interesting in a bigotty sort of way, to know how many of those Labour PVs came from women originating from Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Great news:
Its not the economy that matters, its what the people feel about the economy that matters.
looks to be eventually removed… and now there’s the message:
“Any more spinners like Tory Media Machine Sky wanting to know voting postal results just let us know #suckers”
What loonie is running that account?! in fact shouldn’t it say like all the leaflets do?!
http://twitter.com/UKLabourParty/status/13077190250
Leaked? The Labour Party probably WRITES the postal votes.
It was always clear that postal votes were going to be a significant factor in this election so it is highly likely that this will not be the only tampering going on.
Could someone tell me what Bristol East is like and who lives there?
Iv’e read bits from OH that it’s a bit of a hole, can anyone add to that?
Ok. The Electoral Commission should nullify all postal votes received but allow voters to vote again on Thursday in person only.
Bristol East isn’t that bad but it is definately not Tory territory. The big divide is the M32 running into the city centre from the M4. Those to the East of it are not on the better side of the tracks. If you have money you head for Clifton.
If you ever saw Hugh Fearnley Whittinstall’s River Cottage series where he helped develop an inner city small holding – that was Bristol East.
Now we know that some cheating gutless rodents have been fiddling the election counting books, why not cancel all postal voting? Do we really want another government & parliament crawl into power with the help of cheating? The last parliament headed by Brown & his dung beetles was rotten to the core & infested with maggots, we certainly don’t want or need another one.
If all postal voting figures are not wiped off the election result then a hung parliament is our only hope – hang every bloody one of the bastards up from a giant gallows in Parliament Square.
Oh yes! That’s nine more than I’ll get at this election(!)
I originally thought that was “Trades Union Socialist Chapter”, but that was just a guess…
Ahem.
Bristol East is a bit of a mixture: ranges from absolute inner-city solid NuLab vote fodder to nicer bits on the outskirts.
There is a MASSIVE (and growing) ethnic/foreign presence in the constituency, largely in the inner-city parts, but spreading further afield as it becomes more “diverse”.
Somali and Eastern Europeans are the most obvious arrivals in recent years. Um, quite a lot of them.
A marvellous multi-cultural utopia – a bit like the cover of the NuLab manifesto, but with more concrete and looking a bit more like Mogadishu (in places).
Hang on.
What’s supposed to happen at these meetings where the votes are opened? I thought that the papers were opened and sample identifying markers were checked?
Kerry produces exact figures for the totals she quotes. That argues that some sorting has been done according to votes cast. How else could she be so precise?
Can someone with more knowledge of law and procedure please clarify whether this kind of sorting could or should have been done at this stage?
Which official present at the procedure is responsible for ensuring that information from votes cast is kept as confidential as possible? Is it the returning officer?
A full and published enquiry from the Electoral Commission, please.
Can she be made to stand down. Any idea what the penalty is for trying to rig a general election?
What do you mean, trying!!! They are expert at it!! the outcome was decided last december. Lets see how much they get away with this time! Yes Mandy… we are on to you!!
The rules are that postal votes are opened in the presence of every candidate’s agent. They are opened face down, but agents can get a peek in. Because announcing these results prematurely can affect the outcome of the whole election, however, they’re under strict confidentiality rules. Bristol Electoral Services are now looking into it as a matter of urgency…
But why let them see the postal vote results at all until all the votes have been collected and the polling booths closed? It seems like sheer madness to me and open to abuse from corrupt MPs (which we now know most are)
love the handle
No doubt on 7 May we will wake up to a nationwide Glenrothes.We’re living in cloud cuckoo land if we think that these people play by the rules.Labour will have to be dynamited out of office.
.Section 66a, 1983 Representation of the People Act
“(1)
The following persons—
(a)
every returning officer and every presiding officer or clerk attending at a polling station,
(b)
every candidate or election agent or polling agent so attending,
(c)
every person so attending by virtue of any of sections 6A to 6D of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000,
shall maintain and aid in maintaining the secrecy of voting and shall not, except for some purpose authorised by law, communicate to any person before the poll is closed any information as to—
(i)
the name of any elector or proxy for an elector who has or has not applied for a ballot paper or voted at a polling station;
(ii)
the number on the register of electors of any elector who, or whose proxy, has or has not applied for a ballot paper or voted at a polling station; or
(iii) the official mark.”
Bang to rights, guv.
“(6) If a person acts in contravention of this section he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months.”
What the f…???
Are these people for real? What ARE they thinking of? Oh. I know. Electoral fraud. That’s what they are thinking of.
With the unwritten section that states “The severity of the punishmen will depend on the party they represent”.
Mandy will fix.Simple!
Would it be a hate crime of some variety to say “lock the bitch up”?
yes…….canine defamation act 2009, comparing a perfectly acceptable domestic pet to a law-breaking proto-communist troll.
Prodigy?
Sino.
That’s funny.
Do you think she’d enjoy the girl-on-girl action in the clink?
“(6) If a person acts in contravention of this section he shall be liable
Kerry is a she so that is all right innit
Labour’s Twitter tsar Kerry McCarthy has admitted revealing postal vote figures online in a potential breach of election laws.
In an effort to boost party morale after Gordon Brown’s “bigot-gate” gaffe, she posted the results of some early postal vote openings in Bristol.
This is illegal. Party agents are allowed to verify the opening of postal ballots but it is against the law to disseminate the information gleaned before all voting closes – at 10pm on Thursday May 6.
Ms McCarthy who is defending her Bristol East seat, tweeted: “First PVs opened… our sample…” to her 5,500 followers.
Her tweet was picked up and forwarded by Charlie Whelan, the union Unite’s communications boss and many others. She has warned that those who passed it on may also be in breach of the law.
Ms McCarthy told Sky News: “I was over-excited… I thought it was a random sample [equivalent to canvassing on the doorstep].”
The candidate, who has been charged by the Labour party with managing and encouraging on-message tweets, has now deleted the offending message.
She apologised by using Gordon Brown’s phrase from yesterday’s gaffe: “I am a penitent sinner”.
She said she has informed the returning officer who told her it happened fairly often but can lead to a “ticking off”.
Conservative HQ told Sky News that they had monitored the messages but were taking no action.
According to section 66A of the Representation of the People Act, publishing the details of a count can lead to a fine or a prison sentence of up to six months.
“According to section 66A of the Representation of the People Act, publishing the details of a count can lead to a fine or a prison sentence of up to six months”.
Can someone explain to me why doing this should NOT lead to a fine or prison sentence?
Conservative HQ told Sky News that they had monitored the messages but were taking no action.’
FFS!!!!
now we knoe what they mean by we are all in it together!!!!
How about:
“7.56 Even though the Returning Officer is required to keep the ballot papers face down, there may be occasions when candidates and agents see the front of a ballot paper. However, anyone attending the opening of postal votes, which includes staff working at the opening session, is not permitted to reveal any information regarding the votes cast on any particular ballot paper and must maintain the secrecy of voting.50
7.57 Anyone attending a postal vote opening session must be provided with a copy of the relevant secrecy requirements. They should be reminded of these requirements and of the penalty, on summary conviction, either of a fine of £5,000, or six months’ imprisonment.51″
Or
(4) Every person attending the proceedings in connection with the issue or the receipt of ballot papers for persons voting by post shall maintain and aid in maintaining the secrecy of the voting and shall not –
(a) except for some purposes authorised by law, communicate, before the poll is closed, to any person any information obtained at these proceedings as to the official mark; or
…
[ ... ]
(6) If a person acts in contravention of this section he shall be liable on summary conviction [to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or] to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months.
Part C,
V. Impressive, read it through enough & it almost gives us an air of confidence. But does anyone truly think Mandy, Whellan, Brown or any other inhabitant of Labour’s lying cess pit neanderthals would take any notice of something as insignificant as a piece of legislation? Even the grand master of modernisation Call-me-Dave and his dollops along with Saint Clegg & his bunch of bovines have said & done bugger all to protect us from this calamity despite being aware of the problem.
The best & simplest option ALL the electorate have now is to simply throw their voting slips into the trash can & let the grand elite scum of Westminster go to Hell. Let apathy rule from hereon.
So the new labour party can once again get away with an illegal act with an apology!! FFS what’s this country coming to????
wrong section see 66 (4) not 66A
London, 29th April
(To be read while listening to Bruekners 7th symphony)
” The High Kommand of the Labour party announces: Our Leader, Gordon Braun was killed in fighting at his command post, the bunker in Downing Street, fighting to his last breath against Capitalism.
With deepest sorrow and reverence, the British people bow.
His body was reportedly buried at the rear of Downing street after burning, but was shortly removed and thrown in the Thames before “counter revolutionary” forces could seize it.
Reuters
HUGE LOL!
Did the Irish President sign the Book of Condolence?
Ooo tar
https://twitter.com/mrsduffysblog
Facebook want me to be prime minister
Worry not dear pensioner you’ll soon master the PM job once Tony Blair & Cherie have provided you with a few lessons in lying, cheating, obfuscation, choplogic, teethy smiles, pulling the ugliest female face in Downing St, starting wars & making a mint out of talking crap. Look how well Tony has done! All you need is a few hundred thousand quid for the first 1 hour course fee.
Gordon & his old woman will then provide you with free access to Mandy & Campbell – mind how you go with those two shits – together with him giving you a few lessons in cooking the finance books, blaming the world & everyone in it for every clanger YOU make & most importantly telephone throwing.
Good luck sweetie, I’m sure you’ll do a far better job of running the country than the bunch of chimps currently applying for the job.
Posted here first http://bracknellblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/bristol-east-are-opening-postal-votes.html
We all know about postal votes…
I have been warning for over a year that Labour will win this election due to the number of ‘dodgy’ postal votes that they will receive. This is a scandal that was clearly on the way, but as usual the Conservayive leadership have done nothing to try and alert the authorities. I foresee some very surprising Labour holds in some seats where the number of postal votes is unusually high. Will the Conservatives complain and if they do will they be taken seriously? There are elements of the Labour party who will stop at nothing to ensure a Tory government is not elected, they see it as a moral duty.
What’s black and works?
Gordon Brown’s microphone.
What’s gold and won’t work next week?
Gordon Brown’s front door key.
Clever, she ain’t. If Bristol East elect her, more fool them.
226. *rimshot*
For liebour postal ballot rigging is all within the rules.
That’s what they do.
226 by the looks of it
Surprised it’s not more.
you just cant get the staff… & mandy can’t be everywhere!!!
Oh, deary me. Not a re-run of Glenrothes?
Looks like it.
It’s just the first of many…Zimbabwe, here we come!!
Yep, and they got away with it then.
Maybe that was the test run…
Can we see the register please??
So it begins,,,,,,” THE GREAT POSTAL VOTE SWINDLE”!!!!!
Malcom would have been so proud!
Oh you Silly Thing, You’ve really gone and done it now
And now the end is near, and so i face the final curtain!
So does the U.K.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/red-lights-flashing-uk-credit-spreads-according-cds-market
you c*nt, i’m not a queer
i’ll state my case
of which i’m certain…….
riggin the vote cos there’s f*ck all else to do……..
There’s no future!
There’s no point in asking, you’ll get no reply… and we don’t care!
Liar, liar, liar,
You’re in suspension, You’re a liar…
I apologise for misunderstanding the rules on electoral fraud. It was a simple misunderstanding. The electoral commission have accepted my apology and will now vote Labour.
Don’t you mean ‘I apologise IF there was a misunderstanding…’
P.S. What’s up with the site today, Guido? Keeps going all funny when I try and reply…
Nowt wrong with site, probably MI5 tapping your phone!
Have they got any bollocks left to drop?
Oh yes – a whole weeks worth…
Last couple of days has been a good start…
I sincerely hope you don’t mean that in the Biblical way! I’ve heard of chaps who like a cockatoo, but that’s downright perverse!
Does this count as todays liebour gaff? Or will it be chalked down as tonights fireworks?
Corruption and underhandeness with regards to postal votes you say? No, I cant quite believe it.
This is just a silly misunderstanding or the work of a bigot.
Er, what the fuck?
Can we get a Bristol East constituent to call Inspector Knacker? This stinks – more than Bristol normally stinks, I mean.
These Labour fuckwits just can’t help shooting themselves in the foot.
Guido,
This is getting better & better.
It was retweeted by Labour Party (ie. @UKLabourParty).
surely postal votes are supposed to be 99.99% labour?
who fucked up?
In a properly-run ballot, the %age of votes received by each party in postal votes should be close to that received at the ballot box in the polling stations: there is no reason why this should not be the case. So if The Labour candidate in Bristol East receives say 40% at the ballot box yet gets over 75% of the postal votes, that is prima facie evidence of voting fraud. The %-figures of postal votes vs ballot votes should be monitored across the country. Can this be done here by Guido and assistants?
A seriously good idea, please can someone get on this because I fear real postal fraud at this election. Some Labour activists will see at as a moral imperative to keep the evil Tories out.
[...] UPDATE ON ELECTORAL LAW The emerging scandal from Bristol, where a Labour candidate who is also Labour’s New Media Campaig… by tweeting the results of the early postal votes reminds this website of certain areas of [...]
Too many tweets make a twat.
Or a pregnant fish!
I thought a pregnant fish was a ‘twerp’.
Do not argue with me infadel!! i am a…ahem…Doctor!!!
Is she in trouble or not?
Mandy’s on his way round.. you bet she is!
Should you be rebroadcasting them Guido? Can’t you redact or something.
Also here
http://twitter.com/UKLabourParty/status/13069070085
So not just Kerry but the whole labour party machine
Dr Rohen Kapur Independent PPC for Hornsey and Wood Green
unfuckingbelievable
Wrong!!! With this shower of corrupt shit it’s ENTIRELY believeable
So where can I find your emerging manifesto, Dr Kapur?
My manifesto as an independent should really be given to me by the people… I’m not here to dictate policy to them, it is the other way around.
I have my personal views but they don’t form my manifesto.
What the people want in my constituency is what they will get from me as long as the majority of people agree on the issues.
I have views on all issues but Im prepared to debate on my blog and in person what those issues are and how the people of H and WG want to move on those.
Thats a manifesto and a half It promises much more than the fair manifestos of the LibLabConGreen parties
If, Dr Kapur, your manifesto is given to you by the people, why did you not attend the Ham and High hustings in Hornsey last night to hear the electorate’s views?
Probably got mixed up with Yom Kippur!
I got the message that this page is no longer available on twitter!!!
Me too. Taken down.
Anyone got a screen grab?
Publish and be damned, Fawkes.
It is a disgrace that Kerry’s private tweets are being recorded like this. We demand the right to cover up this fraud without you right wing bloggers hoarding evidence.
The victim in all this is Kerry. Her privacy has been violated.
I wasn’t invited…. @ H and WG voter
And I am not one to gatecrash
It’s almost as if they don’t actually care what the law says…
Of course not, they only make the laws – you can’t expect them to obey them as well.
Patricia Scotland could not be reached for comment.
It was a mere administrative infraction not a crime, I’ve paid the fine.
Nope – she’s too busy doing a proper job – cleaning her house.
I think it is more likely that she has no knowledge of the law, this being an irrelevance to the modern tweeting MP.
Even so, it was a most cavalier thing to do and I would hope the incoming government deals with this.
Its still visible on the official Labour Party twitter account – she forgot to delete it there!
who do these people think they are?
What did DC say? two many tweets make a ?
Twatter ?
C*nt.
You really could not make this up.
What with ‘bigotgate’ and now Kerrygate’ it’s like Christmas has come 8 months early.
Any bets on this being on the agenda tonight?
It’s Sue’s fault.
McMental is now standing for Office In Ireland
He will be standing as the Big ejit candidate
On the plus side for Labour there were only 121 postal vote forms sent out…
And 500 of them were living!!
Flocking hell!
Like psychopaths they cannot resist cheating even if it doesn’t help them the attraction of being hoons and a disregard for the consequences makes this inevitable. If its not lying it’s interfering with the votes. Like the psychopath they probably can’t see anything wrong with it and wonder what all the fuss is about.
What is all the fuss about, there are thousands more where they came from.
Erm, are you sure it’s wise to publish the figures? Or does your blog location protect you?
Blog location does not protect: publication in media law is where you receive the communication. Putting the image up here makes you as liable as Kerry.
not during an election … otherwise Mrs Duffy would have been arrested for thought crimes, speech hate and other Marxist modifications of Socialist truth.
First Postal Votes opened in east Bristol. Eng Dems 2; Greens 4; UKIP 9; TUSC 9; BNP 11; Lib Dem 24; Tory 34; Labour 226
Kerry you’ve got it wrong, you are supposed to give the others a few more votes or everyone will know its been rigged.
The ‘others’ votes will come in the normal way. People traipsing down to the polling station and making their mark.
This is the more efficient way of stuffing the ballot box.
At this rate some Labour constituencies will be able to officially declare the winner at 10:01 since no matter how many people voted in person they still won’t be able to match the thousands of Labour postal votes already counted.
Hi Bob,
Thanks again for the economic advice – could you tell me again what we do after printing mo.. err “quantitative easing”?
Regards,
Al
Don’t answer to that gay British homosexual gay colonizing girly boy Bobby. Let’s go to Switzerland for the weekend ya.
Yes “game on” time for Kerrygate. Another zanu fuck up.
It could be a matter for the police if Avon and Somerset Constabulary receive a complaint that there was a disclosure of information about how postal votes were cast.
This sort of offence doesn’t need a complaint.
just make one anyway
What postal votes ? We have never seen a postal voting form.
Shock horror! Labour breaking the law!
I can’t believe it.
I bet it’s Sue’s fault.
Sue Pollard?
I met her in islington post office once – she seemed very nice.
has that McCarthy bitch been nicked yet?
This is to blame!
http://twitter.com/UKLabourParty/status/13069070085
@UKLabourParty also tweeted then deleted
I have a screen-shot if the court needs it.
So do I……
http://prodicus.blogspot.com/2010/04/bristol-electors-is-that-inspector.html
Oh dear god.
They’re going to get away with this, I know.
We’re all f*cked.
Damn the Tories for choosing a leader so easy to demonise.
Naah. Labour would have found an angle whoever the Tories had chosen.
Smearing dissenters is their USP.
That’s true.
But by choosing an Old Etonian they gave the socialist scumbags an open goal.
I’m spoken to nitwit voters who won’t vote Cameron because he’s too posh. Even though Clegg is just the same…
Yep – but at least David Davis would have hit back in such a way that they would not have got up again.
I now know what the Labour old guard must feel like. Their party was stolen by some smoothy and turned into something completely different. The Tories – the real ones, that is – have had the same trick played on them (= us).
‘They’re going to get away with this, I know’
I have a feeling you might be right.
It has been tweeted by the official @UKLabourParty account as well
http://twitter.com/UKLabourParty/status/13069070085
In case it gets deleted
http://i41.tinypic.com/15x4o07.png
The stupidity of these people is astonishing. It is remarkable. Never, ever make the mistake of thinking that you live in a democracy nor one where those in power are there on the basis of ability or skills.
If those figures get out into the public domain it will only serve to depress voter turnout.
What’s the point of voting if the results are so obviously rigged before you start?
At this rate she has 75% of the votes cast. Presumably with thousands more like it to come.
What a load of shit.
I hate to say that I’m genuinely scared that they will rig this election.I never thought such a thing would ever be possible here in my lifetime.
I agree totally.
I’m actually fearful now.
Nothing is beneath the lefty scum. All they care about is being in power, with no idea of what to do with it.
When you’re in power what you do is ensure that you remain in power.
Jesus, just Googled for an image so I know who we are talking about, looks like she’s just walked off the Jeremy Kyle show!
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01422/kerry-mccarthy_1422090i.jpg
I take it the thermometer is to show expenses so far!
She looks like a cokehead…or a scrubber…
Are all of Zanu Labour, like their chums in the BBC, on drugs now?
Is she wearing a badly fitting syrup?
Nope, its postal votes cast, looks like Bristol East is in the bag…
GAME ON!
Bigots!
Die die die!!!!!
It’s OK Frank, you don’t have to go to prison, I know you were provoked.
It tells you the rules in the Agent & Candidates documentation, quite clearly and there are “alleged penalties” under PPERA though of course Zanu ignore any laws they don’t agree with even if they made them in the first place.
Has anybody made a formal complaint to the electoral bods yet? Or even the constabulary?
Oh, this should amuse a few of you.
http://s17.photobucket.com/albums/b88/dripfed/?action=view¤t=Gordonsgaffe.flv
Ta everso!!!…
Nicely done!
We might have to call in independent UN adjudicators at this rate.
The Liebor speak ‘game on’ surely means ‘fraud on’
Wow! Well done Kerry! That’s even better than Kim Il Jong gets!
You’re a star!
But even better done, Guido – keep this up and you’ll be awarded an honour by acclamation from a grateful nation.
This is REAL public service, not the fake sort from the power-junkies who go into politics to ‘serve’ (ho ho).
Serve themselves, more like.
anybody fancy a cup cake?
We’d like that. Wouldn’t we.
Blimey, Delia’s upped her game!
I’d like to up her… ooops! Sorry!
Its all on the BBC Election Live Text
Mervyn King warned that election victor will be out of power for a generation, claims economist:
http://tinyurl.com/39hl5av
How desperate are Labour? Is the an attempt to raise Labour morale? An attempt to influence the vote? An attempt to rigg votes? Who ever put those votes in should be informed that their vote is not private. Labour are a party of scams, games & gimmicks. They no real policies so depend heavily on pulling tricks & stunts. Truly pathetic.
Id worked faw me. You should destroy allTory votes to get a better result.
Go corruption !
Being sociopaths with a childlike sense of entitlement they will wonder what the fuss is about.
My God.What’s the world coming to. And I was a labour voter all my life
If you open all the postal votes from one house first, of course you get this kind of result.
It’s the same as opening a ballot box; depending on where it was in the constituency the results might very heavily favour one party or the other.
Did anybody see Mc Carthy tip the votes on the table first?
Tip them on the table? It was Kerry filling them in….
Time to see The Great Britain – classic bitch!
More Postal Vote Fraud:
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/Police-investigate-claims-postal-vote-fraud-council-poll/article-2080561-detail/article.html
Electoral fraud is an inevitable consequence of favouring multiculturalism over integration.
Many “New Britons” come from areas of the world where electoral fraud is endemic and accepted.
I don’t know about anyone else, but if, at the end of the day this election has obviously been rigged I won’t be taking it lying down.
I accept it might not be the result I want, but that is a different matter.
If we get a high turnout on top of rigged postal votes leading to turnout figures over 100% it will make me suspicious.
I do not know about being rigged, but it is definitely incompetent.
I do not have a vote, because they will not let me have one! They seem to have forgotten about us. Although I have a letter confirming registration.
All the Labour postal votes had a variation of the name mohammad on them, it’s happened before.
Labour appear to have a very high %. Looks like it’s already started.
Welcome to the new Zimbabwe.
We give a sneak preview and some bigot tries to censure us.
BBC Text has it…
1618:
Labour candidate for Bristol East, Kerry McCarthy, seems to have blundered on Twitter by saying that postal votes had been opened. She is widely reported on blogs to have tweeted: “First PVs opened in east Bristol, our sample: Lib Dem 24; Tory 34; Labour 226″. The tweet has now been deleted. The Electoral Commission says the first stage towards counting postal votes is a security check, which can happen before the election takes place, where the votes are opened but not sorted into piles and counted. The spokesman didn’t think that early stage had happened in Bristol East. Ms McCarthy has since tweeted: “on second thoughts, not counting, just random exercise” and “my mistake – hands up”.
Hmmmm. ‘Just random exercise’?
That’ll be the ‘denial’ then.
She ‘mis-spoke’.
She is officially mortified as well.
I have just checked the Electoral Calculus site for this seat and the results from 2005 are…
Lab – 44.75 %
Con – 26.08 %
Lib – 22.02 %
Others – 7.15 %
Results from postal votes here are…
Lab – 70.8 %
Con – 10.06 %
Lib – 7.5 %
Others – 10.9 %
I know the polls are slightly off but the margin off error does not make the Labour result go from the high 20′s ( and falling ) to 70% does it ?
I would expect Labour to get the votes of people on disability benefits and many of the others unable to leave their house but that does seem wildly over supportive of the scum.
Postal Votes are only distributed to Labour Party supporters
Or the idiot made it up and only pretended to break the law. Either way, she should withdraw as candidate, if she can at this late stage.
Hey, that teacher got off.
Well done that jury.
I think I take from this that if one were to get hold of Gordon Brown, smash a lead weight repeatedly into his head shouting “Die die die die”, you’d get off…
You’d get the undying thanks of the court and a fucking medal if I was on the jury.
They could melt the weight down, to make the medals, like they did those russian cannon for the VC…
That boy will know be known as Dumbell or flat head. Still, he probably will think twice before cheeking anyone.
Like that hoon in Australia who got run down and killed for throwing a cheese snack at a car. The driver ran him down and killed him. His cheese hurling days are over, right enough!
Nothing new here, move along please, leave us in peace to fiddle the PVs if you don’t mind.
I keep hearing the police are waiting for a complaint in order to investigate. Why has nobody complained yet?
Well done Gordon !!! First you imitate my economic policies and now you’re copying my electoral practices !!
Excellent !!!
Sleaze, smears and sophistry – it’s in Liebour’s D-N-A.
I know we Law Makers are Law Breakers but look’s like the old ‘Moral Compass’ is in desperate need of re-calibration..
Well, erm, thank you Robert, Sir Robert, I’m glad you agree with my policies. I made a bit of a fuck up yesterday for which I apologise to you too, but I know that I erm we can succeed in our quest to achieve stability and greatnes. Thank you again
Labour can suck on my hairy postal plums!
By, “The rules are”, I take it you mean the law which states, in the words of veteran political analyst Anthony Wells, “it is illegal to separately report figures for just those who have already cast postal votes”.
Was McCarthy an MP when the Government established the current system of postal voting? It seems to me it would be a bit difficult for her to claim she didn’t know what the law was, and in any case, as we all know, ignorance is no defence…
P.S. this is a matter that should be reported to the police, not just the council penpushers…
Why doesnt someone just report her to the police?
Yeah right , Ashcroft did it end of story
The fucking bins must be overflowing with non labour ballot papers !
Why is everyone talking about Sction 66A. It doesn’t apply – it relates to exit poll information.
The relevant proscription relating to postal votes is Section 66 (4) Those attending:
“shall not attempt to ascertain at the proceedings in connection with the receipt of the ballot papers the candidate for whom any vote is given in any particular ballot paper or communicate any information with respect thereto obtained at those proceedings.”
Bang to rights. It would seem.
Game over you desperate, poverty-hungry Labour female
Nulabour have to rig this election. This was always obvious. UN obsevers now or I fear the worst.
An investigation should be conducted to put voters minds at rest. This McCarthy is clearly a dip in Brown shit. Labour have denounced socialism and replaced it with arseholism.
O/T that woman Cooper Balls
she is on sky wearing the same old womans outfit (the vomit green one)
that she has had on every time she has appeared on the box
for the last three weeks She must fucking stink !
It’s not the same one, it is the same design. She buys 20 at a time, on expenses. A bit like Jacko (he was weird as well) she never wears the same clothes twice.
The law is for everyone except Gordo and his people.Anyone who complains is clearly a BIGOT.
Charlie Whelanon the BBC talking over people as per
can anyone recomend a good plastic surgeon
his fucking head seems to be swelling up at an alarming rate
his face needs liposuction !
or give his lips faceosuction.
Leafletgate. Bigotgate. Somehow Postalvotegate doesn’t quite have the same ring about it.
kerrygate is a bluff. it’s to get publicity,and if everyone thinks labour are getting the votes they vote labour, no one has seen the votes opened,only the tweet that they have been
I have a PDF page image of the Labour Party tweet if anyone requires one. Thought I’d do a screen grab before they removed it and denied it. Mwa ha ha.
Hmm – If I were you, I’d pixellate the numbers in the picture before you get reported too, Mr. Fawkes
After McTwat’s gaffe the liebour party obviously think they need all the help they can get. Postal votes account for some 15% of all votes cast so it’s an obvious target for those from the UK branch of the Mugabe school of election management.
That’s the way to do it…
Bristol East-twinned with Glenrothes
Saw this on Labourlist earlier. Had no clue what it was about …
Never really paid much attention to this woman.
Typed her name into google.
First page I click on : she has a degree in Russian Politics !
FUCKING COMMUNIST SUBVERSIVES EVERYWHERE.
There is (apparently) a team of people, who work for Her Majetsy the Queen on matters of “Domestic Subversion”.
Is it not subversive behaviour to “tweet” this information ?
hmmmmm, I wonder ?
This women will, I should imagine, be getting some “extra” attention in the days ahead.
Burnham
Johnson
Milliband E
Milliband D
Mandelson
Straw
Balls
Yep, with all these people in one place at the same time,well, it just makes “the job” far easier if Her Majesty the Queen decides on such a course of action doesn’t it ? Polish president and his plane crash spring to mind !
She manages to tell the world about voting when it is against the law! But why did she not tell Douglas Alexander about a ‘sex pest’ in the Labour Party? She knew about John Cowan on the 12th February!!!
She does not know how to use the (male invented) internet
http://order-order.com/2009/05/27/totty-watch-fine-gaels-fine-girl/
This is the proper way to mess up on the internet. Isn’t that right Duke Fio Swag?
Police told of Labour candidate’s tweet on votes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8652781.stm
OOOOoops!
http://twitter.com/BrisSthHustings/status/12905306672
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/9995/twitterbristolshustings.jpg
Is Kerry McCarthy Lying or has she just commited a criminal act ?
She’s NuLabour. Doing both, simultaneously is in their operations manual.
She might have done both. Improperly attempting to influence the outcome of an election by fraud? Got to be an offence, one would think?
When will these fucking mongs work out YOU CAN’T DELETE a Tweet? It will get cached on sites like Google and others.
Jeus how thick are these fucking tools? The BBC are as bad.
Why am I NOT surprised that once again Liebour are involved in dodgy dealings with postal votes?
Third world banana republic anyone?
Told you so, I say unfortunately
Just a heads-up:
“I have personally called the Returning Officer at Bristol City Council to apologise, and assured him I have removed the information as quickly as possible, within a matter of minutes. He has advised that it would not be lawful for anyone else to publish the information, for example, by re-posting my original Tweet.” – McCarthy.
This is the only site I can find (through a quick Google search) which has actually posted the numbers, and it’d suck for you to get in legal trouble because of it.
How come Kerry knows it is illegal now, after she did it?
Some social media expert SHE turned out to be!
So, Jim, can we take it that one of those alleged votes for Kerry was not from you? (joke!)
This Labour lot and their staff are a bunch of law-breaking liars and cheats who despise democracy and, it appears, their own supporters. They are desperate now and will do anything. Tip of the iceberg with more to come?!
Newsnight have just covered the Kerry McCarthy story. Plus it’ll be in a few of the nationals tomorrow.
Too much information. This is the only simple message/mantra the electorate need to unite behind “Say NO! to another 5 years of Gordon Brown”
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Isn’t there an irony in this given Sky’s new dramatic interpretation of Terry Pratchett’s ‘Going Postal’ is airing soon? And I’m not employed by Sky. Actually I’m not employed. Might this have been done to draw this kind of comment? Oh, darn it, disappearing into a semi-dystopian temporal vortex of my own making…..
This is more of the same rubbish – taken with the usual bucket of salt
________________________________________________________
RT @channel4news: Channel 4 News live POLL RESULTS: Brown wins
on 44%, Clegg is second on 42%, Cameron 13% None of them 1%
#leadersdebate about 3 hours ago via API
Kerry4MP
Kerry McCarthy____________________________________________
ROFL
I think that Kerry What’s her name has done us a favour. We now know that the postal vote has been rigged, Mugabe-style, by Labour.
Get the complaints in early, folks.
Which Airline delivered the postal votes then.
Hmmm let me think ?
” ….. it would not be lawful for anyone else to publish the information, for example, by re-posting my original Tweet.” – McCarthy.
time to change the graphic, Guido ….
Has anyone wondered why the % vote for the 3 main partys are Lab 70.8%, Con 10.7%, Lib Dem 7.5% and others 11.0% …….Glenrothes again ??
It’s at the bottom of the front page in the Bristol Evening Post newspaper, “Kerry, you twit” it proudly proclaims!
Eng Dems last. #gameON Brit lovers!
Er which of s i ii iii has she broke exactly?
.Section 66a, 1983 Representation of the People Act
“(1)
The following persons—
(a)
every returning officer and every presiding officer or clerk attending at a polling station,
(b)
every candidate or election agent or polling agent so attending,
(c)
every person so attending by virtue of any of sections 6A to 6D of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000,
shall maintain and aid in maintaining the secrecy of voting and shall not, except for some purpose authorised by law, communicate to any person before the poll is closed any information as to—
(i)
the name of any elector or proxy for an elector who has or has not applied for a ballot paper or voted at a polling station;
(ii)
the number on the register of electors of any elector who, or whose proxy, has or has not applied for a ballot paper or voted at a polling station; or
(iii) the official mark.”
Bang to rights, guv.
Have had a reply from the returning officer that it has now been reported to the police and is a police matter . My email of complaint has been forwarded to them see my blog Indyspareings
Kerry Maccarthy was naive in the extreme but Guido has slipped up by reposting the figures here. I understand that a further complaint-about this site has also been lodged with the police via the deputy returning officer.