The former editor claims he cast his ballot twice in Britain's EU referendum to expose how poor the voting rules are. Now the police are investigating the alleged electoral fraud.
Mr. Moore, who was seeking to expose security flaws in the voting system, wrote in the Spectator magazine how he was able to vote once in Sussex and a second time in London, where he spoiled his ballot.
Charles Moore — proving how easy it is to vote twice… If you have two homes…
— Adam Ramsay (@AdamRamsay) 19 August 2016
The editor has two homes, one in Sussex and the other in London. He described how he voted in Sussex during the EU referendum in the normal way. He then went to London, filled out his ballot paper but also spoiled the paper by writing on it that he had already voted and was doing this in protest at how lax the government is when it comes to electoral fraud.
"I went into the polling station in London and took my ballot paper. I then wrote on the paper how I was spoiling my ballot as I had already voted and that this second vote was in protest at how lax the voting rules are," Mr. Moore said.
However, according to the Electoral Commission, this is a criminal offense and highlighted it to the police. Mr. Moore said he did this because it was in the public interest to show how easy it is to commit fraud.
Electoral Commission reporting Charles Moore to police re two votes is ludicrous. Most obvious public interest justification of all time.
— Patrick O'Flynn (@oflynnmep) 19 August 2016
"The famous example which is well documented is what happened in Tower Hamlets and this has happened because of a change of policy, such as postal voting as well slackness in checking on registration," Mr. Moore said.
As Charles Moore points out this is not the only time the issue around electoral fraud has hit the headlines. Only recently did former Communities' Secretary Sir Eric Pickles, release his report into the scandal. He was commissioned to do so by David Cameron after the 2015 Tower Hamlets election fraud issue.
Here the full report with proposals on Postal Voting https://t.co/BfNpts1gRP https://t.co/3vFzNHdn46
— Sir Eric Pickles (@EricPickles) 19 August 2016
In Sir Eric's report, which took 12 months to complete, he argues that "politically correct sensibilities" meant a blind eye was too often turned to voting irregularities in Pakistani or Bangladeshi communities in particular.
