Press Highlights

Our Election Observation Team attracted significant media interest, particularly when election day itself began to reveal significant flaws in our voting system. Here are some press highlights:

The Telegraph 'Britain's electoral system 'corruptible and open to fraud', say Third World Observers' (UK), 25th May 2010

Daily Mail 'Corruptible and open to fraud': International Observers give damning verdict on UK electoral system' (UK), 25th May 2010

Press Association 'Observers: Election was corruptible' (UK), 25th May 2010

BBC News - Election 2010 'Commonwealth monitors watch UK election' (UK), 4th May 2010

Daily Mail 'Miss World, the Queen and an election watchdog' (UK), 4th May 2010

Reuters 'Vote shows need for reform, observers say' (UK), 7th May 2010

BBC News 'African observers assess UK election' (UK), 7th May 2010

Channel 4 News 'Electoral Commission to probe voting chaos' (UK), 7th May 2010

The Telegraph 'British voting system too 'corruptible', warn Third World Observers (UK), 7th May 2010

The Economist 'Going Postal: Electoral fraud is not a problem confined to distant countries' (UK), 6th May 2010

The Times 'Voters must never be let down like this again: our Victorian system is no longer enough' (UK), 8th May 2010

Daily Mail 'Polling station pantomime: Thousands could sue after lockouts in key marginals' (UK), 8th May 2010

The Times 'Ballot security 'worse than Kenya' (UK), 9th May 2010

The Daily Nation 'What Kenya can learn from the UK elections' (Kenya), 8th May 2010

The Herald (Zimbabwe), 11th May 2010

The Nyasa Times Malawi's Nthenda to observe UK polls (Malawi), 2nd May 2010

Scoop Independent News (New Zealand), 1st May 2010

Tehran Times (Iran), 2nd May 2010

The Star Online (Malaysia), 8th May 2010

The Observers were interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Today Show, BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio 5 Live and Sky News. The Observation also featured in an episode of Channel 4's 'Dispatches'.