They include Tower Hamlets, as well as Watford in Hertfordshire, where voters will be asked to present poll cards marked with barcodes. Postal voters will also be selected at random in Tower Hamlets and other selected councils and will be asked if they received applications. Tower Hamlets was placed into special measures in 2015 after the former mayor Lutfur Rahman was found guilty of electoral fraud. Skidmore told the Guardian: “A new initiative to stamp out postal vote fraud will be trialled across Britain this spring including postal vote pilots. “Postal voters will be tracked, they will be selected at random and contacted to make sure they received their postal votes.

Source: The Guardian December 19, 2017 15:56 UTC