THE Electoral Commission has been accused of “letting” a Holocaust denier “disrupt” Scottish elections by posing as a Green figure, taking…
THE Electoral Commission has been accused of “letting” a Holocaust denier “disrupt” Scottish elections by posing as a Green figure, taking votes from the real Scottish
One Green voter who spoke to The National said they had almost voted for IGV accidentally before seeing the name of the candidate – Alistair McConnachie .The claims McConnachie’s IGV are impacting on Green votes seem to have a basis in the figures from the Hillhead by-election, which show that 13.4% of SNP voters and 14.3% of Green voters put IGV as their second preference.
In an online article looking at the by-election, the charity added: “Voters shouldn’t have to spend their time trying to avoid electoral tricks and traps.It said the IGV case “does remind us of the reason you can’t just call your political party anything you like in the UK”. “Now we have a concrete – thankfully, because with STV you get that – concrete breakdown and it is very clear what happened with the votes, in particular for those transfers.”
“The application was published on our website for public scrutiny and comment. Any comments we receive are given careful consideration before a decision is made. No comments were received in relation to this application.”Attempts to contact IGV for comment were unsuccessful.
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