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The Ballot Secrecy Act 2023, outlawing of this type of "family voting" is 2 years old, being observed as two (or more) people going into a booth together.

The official and legal way to "family vote" is to get a proxy vote, and the unofficial way is for someone to fill in your postal ballot by following your instructions. And if you see any irregularity, you must report it immediately so that the specific people can be corrected and extra observers installed. Waiting until it's all over and then just claiming that it's happened is useless.

However, asked if the problem was significant enough to have affected the result, Reform UK chairman David Bull told the BBC: "If I'm being candid, probably not. Certainly that would seem to be sour grapes from us if I said it did."
 
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Elephant Pyjamas said:
It is hilarious how Farage is trying to spin this, "sectarianism"

Muslims voting for a party led by a gay, Jewish man?
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They didn't, Polanski didn't stand. They voted against a candidate who aligns himself with Tommy Robinson and a Party who have only been mildly critical of Israel.

The Greens worked hard for the Muslim vote, the video you shared in the week in Urdu, the associating Starmer with Mohdi. They were successful in doing so and politically smart, but it's not some thumping endorsement of Green policies or Polanski any more than it was an endorsement of George Galloway when he's gone after the same demographic. Without seeing a deeper dive into the actual vote it's difficult to see how much that impacted the result, although I'd imagine it was pivotal.
 
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Tony Towner said:
They didn't, Polanski didn't stand. They voted against a candidate who aligns himself with Tommy Robinson and a Party who have only been mildly critical of Israel.

The Greens worked hard for the Muslim vote, the video you shared in the week in Urdu, the associating Starmer with Mohdi. They were successful in doing so and politically smart, but it's not some thumping endorsement of Green policies or Polanski any more than it was an endorsement of George Galloway when he's gone after the same demographic. Without seeing a deeper dive into the actual vote it's difficult to see how much that impacted the result, although I'd imagine it was pivotal.
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If Muslim voters were “pivotal”, that means they turned out and voted.

That’s civic participation, not sectarianism.
 
Elephant Pyjamas said:
If your point wasn’t that it was sectarian, then we’re aligned.
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I don't think it's sectarianism as firstly that word has clearly loaded implications in this country and secondly because individual parties outside of NI have always benefitted from various particular religious demographics traditionally voting in a certain way, it's just that it's not Green. I don't believe Polanski's religion or sexuality demonstrates that it isn't though.
 
And hopefully Labour have realised they are better off trying to get back some of the Green vote.

I won't hold my breath though.
 
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