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To: United Nations Electoral Oversight Body

PETITION U.N TO MONITOR 2017 UK GENERAL ELECTION

We the undersigned petition the UN to monitor the electoral process and vote counting in the upcoming June 8th 2017 UK General Election

Why is this important?

The Conservative Government has broken it's own fixed term policy to call a snap general election a full three years before it was due to. It did this while the investigations into their financial conduct during the 2015 General Election was still open and undischarged. There were a total of 29 constituencies and 60 Conservative Party MP's and their agents under investigation. This figure was around twice the majority the Conservative Government constitued a Government under at the current term. (These investigations have now been discharged and although both CPS and Electoral commission found evidence of wrongdoing, no charges have been brought.)
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/tory-fraud-investigation-cps-announce-081624415.html

We should like to take this opportunity to remind the UN that they have already recently engaged in investigations into the current Conservative UK Government in breach of international law and complicit in 'grave and systematic human rights abuses' against the most vulnerable members of society:
http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/news/uk-in-breachhuman-rights/00287.html

We believe the most basic principles of democracy are at stake; the right to participate in free and fair elections, and urgently call upon the UNITED NATIONS to begin monitoring the conduct and counting of the UK 2017 general election.

United Kingdom

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2017-05-11 16:33:54 +0100

100 signatures reached

2017-05-11 00:53:58 +0100

"The Electoral Commission said the CPS's findings were consistent with its own investigation, which had found the Conservative's spending return was incomplete and inaccurate."
- In other words significant irregularities were discovered in electoral expenses accounting by two seperate public bodies and yet appraently nobody is accountable for it. How can a government be consituted without ultimate accountability for it's wrongdoing?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39865801

2017-05-11 00:50:32 +0100

Conservative Party grandee Peter Lilley is revealled to be Director of Idox, a data management company, which has contracts to count votes and manage postal votes.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14478267.Concerns_raised_over_senior_Tory_MP_link_to_election_count_firm/

There were postal vote irregularities reported across a large number of constituencies prior to vote counting in the 2015 General Election:
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/general-election-2015-investigation-reports-9195178
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/11584068/Expats-in-uproar-over-missing-ballot-papers.html
http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/news/local-news/general-election-2015-election-fraud-8925780
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-england-32604143
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/general-election-2015-200000-ballot-papers-stolen-by-van-thieves-10213657.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32557648

2017-05-10 06:46:34 +0100

50 signatures reached

2017-05-09 16:59:07 +0100

25 signatures reached

2017-05-09 13:21:13 +0100

10 signatures reached