Phil Woolas, the Labour MP who held the seat last May by just 103 votes, was later disqualified by a special electoral court for leaflets that peddled falsehoods about his Lib Dem opponent.John McCann, a Lib Dem councillor, says locals are sick of partisan "sniping", and that this makes the coalition an asset on the doorstep.
Interestingly, more often than not it is Labour MPs who are emphasising that our members don't want simply to be cogs in an electoral machine, delivering the leaflets and knocking on the doors, yet without being the effective determiners of the direction of the party.
8. Leaflets from the electoral commission, which were designed to explain what the reform would mean to every household with meticulous neutrality, ended up making AV look horrendously complex.
BNP election campaign leaflets were, under our electoral laws, pushed through 16 million letterboxes.
The paper reported days before the general election that police were looking into claims electoral law had been broken when leaflets were circulated on Dorries' behalf accusing a rival candidate of harassing her.
A detective sergeant has written to Jay Tiernan, a leading member of the Stop the Cull group, suggesting the leaflets and posters could constitute an electoral offence.
This vague electoral pronouncement ('many?') highlighted by a meaningless barchart, this leaflet on behalf of Ed Davey's campaign in Kingston and Surbiton is a classic of the genre.
The electoral commission said the comments made in McEvoy's leaflet were within election rules and were quite common practice in the lead up to a national election.
During the 1964 presidential election, for instance, a Republican consultant was indicted on charges of electoral fraud after he distributed more than a million misleading leaflets that claimed Martin Luther King Jr. wanted black voters to write in his name for president.
