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Originally Posted by michael mcgough
I am not in the least surprised that Lisa Duffy scored so highly because...
A turnout of over 40% is to be commended not knocked.
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You are missing the point. Whether it is good or bad for UKIP, and whether Lisa is a very strong candidate or not is irrelevant. The only important fact is that it was
highly unusual and alarm bells whould have been ringing.
It may be that publicity was far better, or the ROs had made some inspirational speeches about the NEC or maybe 3,000 new activists suddenly joined. There may be genuine reasons for the jump, or it
could have been fraudulent. That's the point of having a returning officer to oversee the election and check for irregularities. Electoral fraud is not uncommon.
However, we will never know in this case because there wasn't an investigation.