BBC Radio 4's Today Programme has learned that some members have received two ballot papers, in some cases because members live and work in different constituencies and may have joined local Conservative Associations in both areas.The BBC has also seen duplicate ballot papers which have been issued to the same person at the same address.
"The ballot holds clear instructions that members voting more than once will be expelled," the party said. The Electoral Commission, the independent body which oversees UK elections to ensure their integrity, has no role in the leadership contest.As they seek to win support from the party's members nationwide, both candidates will address the Young Conservatives Conference in Nottingham on Saturday.
By 'Mistake'? How convenient. 🙄
thefifer1314 Rigging the votes as per normal
I do wonder why it's an issue now, but not when students got issued 2 vote during a GE 🤔
😯
Mistake aye my foot a fix is the word you're looking for
Tories wave off suggestions of electoral irregularities as Boris surges ahead with 2.4 billion recorded postal votes 🗳
Typically Tory continuing to make a shambles of everything they touch!
Find it very disturbing that the BBC is spending more time on this than any of the questionable voter fraud in elections eg Peterborough ! Double standards
I bet they get two ballots for the GEs too! It would explain a lot!
Dodgy AF. And that’s just the candidates.
Are you sure it's a mistake . They do have a record for just that Margaret Thatcher remember.
They’ll have to have an extension to sort this out then someone will call for another vote because they won’t like the result.
AND TO THINK THESE PRICKS ARE RUNNING OUR COUNTRY. COULDN’T ORGANISE A PISS UP IN A BREWERY.
I am a democrat but Biden is really very old style for a young nation.
Vote early. Vote often.
Undemocratic now possibly corrupt as well
The CONservatives shenanigans are better than watching a good old “British” sitcom. This latest fiasco shows how much of a deep state we live in today and only the free thinkers and rebels can put an end to it. A British spring is needed.
*eyeroll*
Ah, can’t even an organise an internal ballot. No wonder we’re shagged!
Yes, Chris Grayling did organise it and if you look at the possible results they will be twice as good. You lefties always see the negative impact on Tory policies blah blah blah... Jacob Smoke-Mirrors Smoggy Campaign Mismanager Boris for A Buggered Britain.
Don't tell labour, they haven't managed to fiddle postal voting that much yet.
'Piss up in a brewery' comes to mind
Did Chris Grayling organise it?
So has the corruption started all ready then
No surprise. They’re useless at running the country so why would this process be any different?
By mistake my arse. Deliberate more like
If this was a trade union strike ballot they would go to court to invalidate it. All they say here is “don’t get bogged down in process”.
I only received one and it's been posted back!
No doubt an ‘enquiry’. People are getting sick of what the politicians, judiciary and media are saying. Although the positive to be taken from this is that your every day person is seriously considering with sincerity, to whome they serve, for what purpose and to what end. (?)
And this is 'the natural party of government'?
Give a man a shallot and he can cook it. Give a man two shallots and he can cook an election.
Not only do conservatives let a fraudulent referendum take place! Under their watch. They can’t even make their internal leadership election look legitimate. StopBrexit StopCorruption VoteLibDem
These idiots are running the country. Into the ground.
What with our unrepresentative first past the post electoral system, exclusive method of choosing PMs, and referendums where 37% of the electorate get to have things their way. Democracy, to paraphrase Gandhi, 'it would be a good idea'
Bullshit ....... now you have to make up stories 😳😳😳🤬🤬🤬
'Mistake'
'By mistake' 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
R Team Boris at it again ⁉️
Now there's a coincidence not to definite Boris members . Would love to know how many members want Boris to get us out of Brexit but not as a PM or even Hunt aswell Let's be honest Boris is only there because of brexit he would have had no chance otherwise
One for Boris, the other for Johnson ToryLeadeshipContest
Two ballot papers for the Tories to cheat and no ballot paper at all.for Europeans living here. Let's have an inquest into that..... no didn't think so
A Tory experiencing an unfair advantage over other people No I doubt that has happened before 🤣😂🤣 ToryLeadeshipContest BorisJohnson JeremyHunt
One member one vote. The fuckwit tories can't even get that right.
Was Chris Grayling organising it?
Mistake? My arse
By mistake? That’s a big gamble on people believing that shit. Hahaha
Typical Tory style, along with dwp, home office and hmrc f*CK ups. They really rely on us not paying attention, don't they
Well this will put the result of the ballot in doubt before it’s even happened A bit like Trumps presidency
You can’t make this farce up
Labour do this regularly, peterborough comes to mind
So, are they blatant liars or completely incompetent?
One for each of Johnson's faces?
But of course such upstanding members of society wouldn’t dream of actually sending both back now, would they?
Mistake my backside
“Mistake” and these are the people who are going to run the country, they couldn’t even run a piss up in a brewery.
benballcv One for each face🤔
Tories unable to hold a leadership ballot without fixing the votes and trying to kid everyone on that they can run a country
“By mistake” you mean!!!
'by mistake...'
They can save one for the autumn after Boris loses the general election.
This people want to rule the country, they can’t even do a simple task. Country is an honest to god joke.
'by mistake' 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
So much like uklabour, the Conservatives can't run a basic internal election properly either. And they wonder why so many of us won't vote for either of them. Can we just sack Westminster?
Fodder to the anti Boris/Brexit hounds. If it looked like Hunt was going to win it would never have been reported. If he wins, given his present chances, then I would assume all the extra papers went to Hunt. Just another part of the ‘Beat Boris’ campaign.
Vote twice? Well, I suppose there's no reason to think that Johnson's supporters will be any less honest than their hero...
They can’t even organise that right lol
It was all a mistake? The 'Boris will be PM' one was a joke? Phew. Thanks gawd for that. You had us going there though, I'll admit. 'Boris as PM' nice one. Hilarious. Now, pick a grown up.
Well that somehow seems appropriate in the context of this shambolic freakshow
Tory fiddling at its best.
If this was the Labour party MP all across the news as a fix
Ok what's the crime policy you've decided I am passionate about?
Oh no! Who’d have thought that there would’ve been any sort of controversy around this
Hope it wasn’t Peterborough
What’s wrong with this country these days? Can’t do even simple things right.
NOT Boris NOT Jeremy Easy, sorted 👍
160,000 members with an average age of 57 (four in ten over 65) deciding our next prime minster is a disgrace. If a party changes leader mid term, surely the country should have a choice and a voice who should be PM. How do either of these two represent mainstream Britain?
All the voting these days seem to be bent
Will one of them be called PM because they only work in the afternoon?
A second vote anybody?
Smart!
How on earth could that have happened - pretty basic stuff surel?. Good thing they're not running anything important like the country then ................. Oh Wait !!
Oh here we go more voting irregularities funny BBC has learned .Funny smell starting to emanate
There is definitely a mistake but the ballots are the least of the problem.
Bet they are working on getting the same for Tory supporters in future elections If it works once for choosing a prime minister why not again
Is that two ballots or bollocks?
Three points:- 1) just how incompetent is the Conservative Party? 2) Members voting twice will be 'expelled', so be cited for Islamphobic comments then quietly reinstated, vote twice you're out! Slightly unbalanced? 3) Just how many members of the Conservative Party are there?
well they are tories, they may make a mistake on their first try.-bet there's no screams of foul from the tory media-imagine it had been labour, the likes of talk(fox news)radio would be in a state of grace-all hail fake news
For years, the BBC have been silent on postal voting fraud, students voting twice and EU nationals not excluded from voting in national elections and suddenly....
The BBC seems to have an agenda here. You are very selective in your choice of stories
Were they issued two votes because they are two faced
Is our Mother of Democracy having a miscarriage? Electoral Commission where are you? If we were e.g Zimbabwe, the EuropeanCommission or the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) would be sending a team to monitor the probity of our electoral process
Only the torres can cock up a 2 man election, wonder why we don’t have a deal
I think primary school children could organise things better! We’ve got not chance really have we
Tory incompetence yet again!
Useless!!!
Trying to make their mandate bigger.
Mistake after mistake. Suddenly it appears Boris was born yesterday and all these issues have immediately been drawn to his attention and he’s jumped on the case. I can’t believe any one can think he is capable of negotiating any issue for Great Britain😱🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😳😱🇬🇧😡😡😡😡😡😱
😂😂And they want to 're negotiate with the EU. 🤡🤡🤡🤡
It would of been quicker having a General Election
They only had to send out around 160,000 and still managed to mess it up! What hope for the future then?
What a mess and the statement is poor. No reassurance of a fair and valid process at all.
Oh dear! Are the Tories involved? Regrettably, the BBCPolitics will support them whatever they do. This will not be reported on BBC News on TV.
this country couldnt run an election in a brewery r4today
Bet they were all sent to Hunt supporters, ha, ha.
It’s just not funny anymore, too many votes in Tory leadership contest but too few allowed to vote in UK EU elections.
Already suspect. Call the whole thing off. Just have a GE with luck neither of them will get back in
And the English vote in a party to run the country that can't run a leadership contest, this must show the Scottish people it's time for a Independent Scotland
The Tories couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery 😂
They operate by 'Mistake', it is their M.O!
Election ' FIXING ' to help the boris camp , ' two ballet papers ' ....the boris camp has already added 40,000 to the true tory membership of 120,000 and now two ballet papers......its ' FIXING ' the tory election to help the boris win .....!
gives you a warm feeling about Brexit
LOL. Can't the Tories do ANYTHING right?
Says it all about this now dysfunctional organisation. But, the Westminster bubble isn't perturbed, along with taking illegal drugs (party contenders admissions). Yet, such actions have contributed to street crime, knifing, murders and now county line dilemmas. Fit for office?
And .... the EU leadership forgot to give anyone a vote before announcing who the next EU leaders would be.
Piss up? Brewery? I wouldn’t trust either of these jizzwizards to run a bath, let alone a government...
Taking a leaf out of UKLabour Election policies?
wow what a mess worse than brexit ha ha
Did they get the head of labour voting policy to do it?
The party that gave you Brexit, austerity and an unelected PM...... Boris in a landslide 300,000!!
The vote should be declared invalid.
Anything to keep Boris out eh?
They printed 160k ballot papers for 80k members because they lied about their membership.
Gosh telling the recipients not to vote twice is alright then. We know that Tories wouldn’t ever do anything that’s underhand. Don’t we?
How many times did people get to vote on EU Presidents, BBC?
I wonder how many times this happens in General Elections but is hushed up?
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Sure, 'by mistake'...
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