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You're not digging very deep are you, Graham.

One challenge does not an accurate register make.

Haven't you got the cojones to try harder?

A journalist worth his salt would be asking Cornwall's Electoral Services some tougher questions like the ones offered to you here:

On further reflection your initial post here takes the biscuit and does nothing for the reputation of incisive journalism, Graham.

1.What have large scale voter purges in Florida and Missouri got to do with concern for the integrity and lawfulness of Cornwall's electoral roll in which there is a very real danger, whether through widespread ignorance of current Electoral Commission rules (such as you yourself displayed through your mouthpiece Laurence Reed last week on Radio Cornwall) or susceptibility to political manipulation, that non-resident second 'home' owners threaten to undermine, through sheer numbers, the democratic self-determination and will of full time resident communities across Cornwall? You don't even site a substantiating source for your claim. You also don't give a figure for the incorrect electoral roll entries in those places that were CORRECTLY removed.

2.You say 'there has been just one challenge to the accuracy of the register'. Was that a challenge to the accuracy of the register as a whole? Was it a challenge to an individual entry? What was the nature of the challenge? What was the response to the challenge? What was the outcome to the challenge?

3.Do you really find it so readily credible that, out of tens of thousands of potential non-resident second 'home' electoral roll registrations and subsequent voters, whether in person or by post, in Cornwall's elections all of them bar one(if that is what you meant to mean), whether knowingly or unwittingly,keep abreast of and abide by the Electoral Commission's rules and need no correction or challenge by up-to-speed and accurate checks, research and monitoring by Cornwall Council's Electoral Registrats? As Spock would say: 'That does not statistically compute'.

If you're going to persist in keeping this so far disappointingly shallow 'sound-bite' blog up and running you could at least display greater respect for the intelligence of your readers by getting into the interesting nitty gritty rather than skating around on the surface like some effete dilettante fairy.

How about following through with 'nitty gritty' questions such as those helpfully provided for you here:



A ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ 'Political Editor' shying away from putting difficult in-depth questions to the powers-that-be about matters that affect us all?

Surely not.

Gopher THE KEVIN LAVERY CHALLENGE!