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DUP to probe ex-mayor vote fraud

September 28th, 2006 · Post your comment (No Comments)

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A DUP disciplinary panel is to examine the case of former Coleraine mayor Dessie Stewart who admitted electoral fraud during the 2005 elections.

He admitted four counts of pretending to be someone else in order to cast postal votes, and two of fraudulently stopping free exercise of a proxy vote. The DUP said a party disciplinary panel would “review and adjudicate” the circumstances Stewart found himself in.

Stewart, who originally denied the charges, will be sentenced later.

A party spokesman added the DUP takes a “very serious and dim view” of electoral fraud and other such matters.

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