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Five men have been jailed following a postal voting scam intended to secure a seat for a Conservative Party candidate, Haroon Rashid, at the 2005 general election. The men, two of whom are former councillors, filed hundreds of fake postal vote applications in an attempt to ensure Rashid was elected in the marginal Bradford West constituency.

Detectives scrutinised more than 900 suspicious forms as part of their investigation, many in the name of people who did not exist or did not know an application had been made for them.

Former Bradford City Councillors Jamshed Khan, 65, and Reis Khan, 40, along with Mohammed Sultan, 52; and Mohammed Rafiq, 70, all from Bradford, were jailed for 21 months for their roles in the plot.

Another defendant, Alyas Khan, 52, a Conservative Party officer from Bradford, admitted the offence and was jailed for 11 months.

As many as 50 people were involved in the forgery of the applications but many were never identified and others were not brought to court.

The men were able to carry out the scam by using homes occupied by a number of people, controlled by conspirators with communal postal systems, and by using the votes of people "unfamiliar or uninvolved in the British electoral process".

Judge Bartfield, sentencing, said he had reduced the sentences considerably because each man was suffering from serious medical conditions and their cases were severely delayed, with two previous trials being aborted.

If this crime had been committed by BNP activists on behalf of a BNP candidate can you imagine for one minute that this story would not be headline news on the television and front page news in the papers? Can you imagine the sentences being considerably reduced because of medical grounds?

The good news is that Haroon Rashid failed to get elected despite the fraud.

Four people, all foreign nationals, were each jailed for two years last week after admitting trying to dupe the Rev Michael Hills, of Holy Sepulchre Church, into marrying them.

Mr Hills says he has seen at least three weddings in his churches raided by immigration officers as couples were about to tie the knot. Another five couples have been arrested as they arrived in Northampton to sort out the wedding paperwork.

The bogus weddings are typically between an illegal immigrant from Africa and a non-British EU national.

Speaking to the Chronicle & Echo, Mr Hills said sham marriages "took advantage of the church" and said vicars now had to be extra vigilant.

He said: "About a year ago we started to get lots and lots foreign weddings, particularly from Nigerian people who were marrying Eastern Europeans. Eventually what happened was the police turned up at Holy Sepulchre and arrested one couple.

"It was found their passports were false and they had also given me false bills to prove their address."

He added: "I think there are some pretty desperate people out there really. They will do anything to stay here basically. It is upsetting."

Mr Hills, who is vicar of both Holy Sepulchre and St Michael's Church, in Northampton, said changes may be needed inside the Church to clamp down on sham couples.

Traditionally the Church has checked the validity of marriages by asking the parish congregation on three successive Sundays and then again on the marriage day if they know of "any lawful impediment" why a couple cannot be married.

However, Mr Hills said: "It is very difficult to do that now, especially in towns when people don't know each other as they used to. We are not equipped to say whether a passport or a household bill is false or not.

Asked about the two year sentences handed down on Friday, he added: "I think it is fair enough.

"They are taking advantage of the system. If they are going to come and tell lies they are going to have to face the consequences, especially if they are telling lies to the church."

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A speeding hit-and-run driver was seen ‘laughing and giggling’ as he fled after a crash in which a young dad died.

Zaffer Kurshid, 21, was doing 70mph in a 30mph zone when he hit Robert Allen, then drove  away leaving him for dead.

He was jailed for four years at Bolton Crown Court.

Witnesses said Mr Allen, 36, of Bedford Street, Bolton,  was thrown more than 40 yards when he was mown down on Chorley New Road. He died at the scene.

Kurshid was described by a judge as an ‘impatient and frustrated driver’. He passed his test just four months before the crash last October.

The court was told that he has a previous conviction for driving without a licence.

Kurshid’s brother Asad, 24, who owned the powerful Volvo S60 involved in the collision, was given an eight-month sentence, suspended for two years, after he pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice.

The court heard that he created a fake receipt claiming the car had been sold when he heard what had happened.

Disqualified

He devised the ‘short-lived’ scheme in panic because having a previous conviction for driving while disqualified, he believed officers would think he was the driver, it was said.

Both brothers, who live on Kilnhurst Road, Bolton, handed themselves in hours later.

Zaffer Kurshid, who was in the car with a girlfriend, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving. He was also banned from the road for six years.

Peter Barr, prosecuting, said Mr Allen, who had a daughter, was returning from an off-licence with his dog when he was struck.

One witness told police: “The car looked as though it was flying.” A driver who saw the collision stopped and called police and paramedics. Mr Barr said another witness saw Kurshid and a girlfriend getting out of the vehicle after he abandoned it near the Bolton School. He said the witness saw them ‘laughing and giggling’.

Jailing Zaffer Kurshid, Judge William Morris said: “You were responsible for this tragic death. You were speeding and travelling at 70mph. You admitted that you did so for the excitement.”

His brother Asad was also ordered to complete 200 hours’ of community service.

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Britain boasts one of the world’s freest and most transparent electoral systems. But is is being slowly and steadily undermined and abused, particularly by Muslim immigrant communities.

...........................Cultural Enrichment™ Alert – The BBC seems to think it’s some kind of quaint ethnic custom, but in a serious development today in arguably one of Britain’s most corrupt constituencies, yet more evidence is surfacing that electoral fraud (particularly that relating to postal votes) in Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities in Britain is becoming widespread; as this breaking story illustrates:

Scotland Yard has launched criminal investigations into four allegations of bogus voter registration. Bundles of fictitious names have been put on the electoral roll in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in what looks like a blatant attempt to steal the elections.

It will raise concern in an area notorious for election fraud and where a last-minute flood of applications to vote mean that more than 5,000 have been accepted without any checks — enough to sway Thursday’s results.
The council tried to clean up the register. Officials visited any home with nine or more voters and removed 141 names from the roll. But a surge of 5,166 new registrations were received just before the deadline of April 20 and there was no time to check them. Alarm bells rang when parties were given lists of postal voters to help with electioneering.

At an address in Bethnal Green Road consisting of a ground-floor shop and an upstairs maisonette, eight Bengalis claimed a postal vote. However, when The Times called there this week there was only one occupant, Inge Reekmans a Belgian photographer. “You’re kidding,” she said when told about the registrations.

Showing The Times around her home, the only other occupant was her cat Kiki. “You can see, there are no Bengalis,” she said. In Goldman Close, there were 10 Bengali names for a house where Stephane Leyvraz, a Frenchman, lives with two Europeans. When The Times visited, there was no sign of “Tanzir Alam”, “Nurul Aman” or the others. A man came for the ballot papers on Monday.

Across Tower Hamlets in Bromley-by-Bow, 18 people apparently requested postal votes in a four-bedroom house where Ali Saleem, a Pakistani student, lives with four companions. Does he vote? “Not even in my own country,” he said. “I don’t like to vote.”

The Electoral Commission’s Code of Conduct for postal voting forbids campaigners from soliciting ballot papers. But Mahmodul Hasam Talukdar was asked for his by a party supporter. “He said ‘Vote for us and I will take it back to the post office’,” Mr Talukdar, 23, a student from Bangladesh, said. “Why should I? It’s my vote.”

Britain boasts one of the world’s freest and most transparent electoral systems. But is is being slowly and steadily undermined and abused, particularly by Muslim immigrant communities.

In 2007 the Joseph Rowtree Foundation, an independent organisation which promotes electoral reform and democratic rights, said:

“several cases [of electoral fraud] have involved proven instances of large-scale vote-rigging within British Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities. There is some anecdotal evidence to suggest that practices associated with traditional forms of Pakistani ‘clan politics’ have been a common factor in a significant minority of recent prosecutions for electoral fraud”

In Slough, Berkshire last year, Six British Pakistanis were jailed for postal vote abuse.

In an earlier case in Birmingham in 2005, local elections were voided and had to be re-run at a massive cost to the taxpayer, as several Pakistani candidates were found to be operating what was described as a ‘vote-rigging factory’.

The judge commented on government claims at the time that postal voting was working:

“Anybody who has sat through the case I have just tried and listened to evidence of electoral fraud that would disgrace a banana republic would find this statement surprising.”

But as we often say here at Un:dhimmi, it is unfair to transfer all the blame to the miscreants. Equally culpable are the enablers – and here it is once again the political class in the UK, who still maintain that the lax security arrangements in British elections (particularly those around postal voting) do not require reform.

It is clear that a workable alternative to postal voting has to be found, or locked-down arrangements to protect abuse of postal voting from Britain and abroad put in place; and that in-person voters should have to identify themselves to electoral offices, which, bizarrely, is not currently the case in Britain.

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