Richard Mawrey QC

Richard Mawrey is a legal scholar and one of the most experienced election judges in England and Wales.

Trump’s right, the US election could easily be rigged

In the furore over Trump's bid to fill the vacant Supreme Court slot, commentators have pointed out that his nominee's first job may be to rule on the validity of the election result. Is that likely to happen? As the judge in the election court that exposed serious voter fraud during the 2004 Birmingham council elections and in several other election cases involving fraud, I think I may be able to go some way in answering that question. Fear over a disputed election stems from President Trump’s claim that postal voting is vulnerable to widespread fraud — committed, one need hardly say, by the Democrats. The Democrats have naturally reacted with horror and outrage, denying that they would ever dream of such a thing (being bound to win anyway).