Submission statement: After Democracy Volunteers raised reports of electoral coercion that they say were ignored by poll officials, Labour has called for investigation and examination of their claims.
>”We rarely issue a report on the night of an election, but the data we have collected today on family voting, when compared to other recent by-elections, is extremely high.
From a BBC article earlier:
> “In the other recent Westminster parliamentary by-election in Runcorn and Helsby we saw family voting in 12% of polling stations, affecting 1% of voters.
> “In Gorton and Denton, we observed family voting in 68% of polling stations, affecting 12% of those voters observed.”
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Submission statement: After Democracy Volunteers raised reports of electoral coercion that they say were ignored by poll officials, Labour has called for investigation and examination of their claims.
>”We rarely issue a report on the night of an election, but the data we have collected today on family voting, when compared to other recent by-elections, is extremely high.
From a BBC article earlier:
> “In the other recent Westminster parliamentary by-election in Runcorn and Helsby we saw family voting in 12% of polling stations, affecting 1% of voters.
> “In Gorton and Denton, we observed family voting in 68% of polling stations, affecting 12% of those voters observed.”
There’s some confusion here because both the Manchester City Council and [Greater Manchester Police](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp8rjk02r0jt?post=asset%3A2b7108cd-6caf-4401-b2b2-a06891ce6e07#post) have claimed they received no reports of any offences. Democracy Volunteers have said that they did report this, so either there was some communication mishap or someone is lying.
Good. From what I saw, family voting sounds like a horrible regressive practice that absolutely shouldn’t be tolerated