Chris

The votes probably aren’t being bought, it’s more likely the head of the family has told everyone who to vote for and demanded proof, because polling station returning officers are trained to spot and challenge attempts at family voting these days. Gone are the days when a man in his 50s could just walk in to a polling with a sheaf of proxy approvals, or with his wife, children and aged aunts and wait while they collect their ballot papers and then give them to him to fill in.