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Post by Irn Bru Tue Mar 18, 2014 12:27 am

A man due to stand for UKIP in Great Yarmouth at the next general election has been summonsed to faces charges of electoral malpractice.

Norfolk county councillor Matthew Smith, 26, is accused of seven counts of supplying a nomination paper to a returning officer knowing it to contain a forged signature.

He also faces three counts of producing forged nomination papers.

Mr Smith, of High Street, Gorleston, was a party agent in Great Yarmouth.

Norfolk Police said Mr Smith was accused of returning fraudulent nomination papers in the Norfolk County Council elections held in the Great Yarmouth district between March and April 2013.

A spokeswoman said: "The charges were authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service and follow an investigation into allegations of electoral malpractice reported to Norfolk Constabulary last April."
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Two other men also faces charges in connection with the election

Daniel Thistlethwaite, 19, of Station Road, South Belton, and Michael Monk, 60, of Freeman Close, Hopton, each face a charge of one count of supplying a nomination paper to a returning officer knowing it to contain a forged signature.

All three are due to appear at Norwich Magistrates' Court on 4 April.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-26618246

More bad publicity for UKIP.
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Post by Guest Tue Mar 18, 2014 12:50 am

Irn Bru wrote:A man due to stand for UKIP in Great Yarmouth at the next general election has been summonsed to faces charges of electoral malpractice.

Norfolk county councillor Matthew Smith, 26, is accused of seven counts of supplying a nomination paper to a returning officer knowing it to contain a forged signature.

He also faces three counts of producing forged nomination papers.

Mr Smith, of High Street, Gorleston, was a party agent in Great Yarmouth.

Norfolk Police said Mr Smith was accused of returning fraudulent nomination papers in the Norfolk County Council elections held in the Great Yarmouth district between March and April 2013.

A spokeswoman said: "The charges were authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service and follow an investigation into allegations of electoral malpractice reported to Norfolk Constabulary last April."
Three-way alliance

Two other men also faces charges in connection with the election

Daniel Thistlethwaite, 19, of Station Road, South Belton, and Michael Monk, 60, of Freeman Close, Hopton, each face a charge of one count of supplying a nomination paper to a returning officer knowing it to contain a forged signature.

All three are due to appear at Norwich Magistrates' Court on 4 April.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-26618246

More bad publicity for UKIP.

You might get some abuse for posting that news story!  lol! 

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