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A medical mistake

• Mark Devenport
• 1 Mar 07, 04:23 PM

In the good olds days of "voting early and voting often" it used to be claimed that certain parties had printing plants cranking out fake medical cards. But that was all stamped out with the latest electoral fraud legislation, wasn't it?

Not if you read one of around 12 thousand leaflets distributed by the Tories. They inaccurately state the kind of identification needed to vote. Around 10 thousand of the leatlets were distributed in North Down and Strangford with an estimated 2 thousand in East Belfast. The leaflets feature the Conservative candidates Glyn Chambers, Bob Little and James Leslie.

Seamus Magee from the Electoral Commission clarifies that it is accurate to say that a driving licence and passport can be used, but not a medical card, an allowance book, marriage certificate, seaman's card or national insurance card.

But then the Tories might reply, that was accurate when we were in government.