Rejected petition Stop on demand postal voting - only people with valid reasons should have one.

Postal voting was introduced in the UK in 1918 as a mechanism to provide people, who were physically unable to get to a polling station, a way to vote in a general election. In 2001 the Labour government allowed postal voting to anyone. This petition demands abolition of postal voting on demand.

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Since 2001, there have been many examples of postal vote fraud as a result of being able to request on demand, and this needs to end in order to preserve the democratic system of the UK.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578776/Scrap-postal-votes-elections-fixed-says-judge-warns-ballot-rigging-probability-parts-Britain.html

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/sep/06/men-jailed-attempted-postal-vote-fraud

http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN03667/SN03667.pdf

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/114551

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Date submitted 5 December 2015
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