Legal challenge to threaten Britain's election date
AFP, London
A legal challenge to postal voting, which could potentially delay Britain's May 5 election, will be launched on Thursday, as senior civil servants prepared to discuss the problem, reports said. The court hearing will be a further embarrassment for the governing Labour Party, which introduced the mail system four years ago to boost participation in elections, after the recent exposure of two cases of postal voting fraud. John Hemming, the deputy leader of Birmingham city council in the West Midlands, is seeking a judicial review at the High Court of safeguards for mail-in ballots, the Financial Times and Guardian newspapers said Wednesday. He is expected to argue that the absence of adequate safeguards breaches the right to a secret ballot in the Human Rights Act.
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