{"id":1224,"date":"2006-04-27T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/27\/114613593298292232\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T22:49:06","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T22:49:06","slug":"postal-vote-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/postal-vote-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal vote fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/west_midlands\/4947670.stm\">More (potential) postal vote fraud in Birmingham<\/a> in the run-up to next week&#8217;s local elections. Only this time it&#8217;s the Lib Dems, not Labour&#8230; Nice one, guys.And herein lies the reason why local elections should be voted for on local, not national issues. The Lib Dems may be a valid protest vote at a General Election &#8211; but locally they&#8217;ve got just as much potential for corruption as the rest. It varies from council to council, ward to ward &#8211; and can be bloody complicated to work out even if you live there, let alone if you don&#8217;t. Expecially at local elections where votes can actually carry some weight, think carefully where you mark your &#8220;x&#8221; &#8211; because put it in the wrong box and you could live to regret it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More (potential) postal vote fraud in Birmingham in the run-up to next week&#8217;s local elections. Only this time it&#8217;s the Lib Dems, not Labour&#8230; Nice one, guys.And herein lies the reason why local elections should be voted for on local, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/postal-vote-fraud\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-lib-dems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}