The Guardian reports (29.4.05, “Blair’s dark day as Iraq row erupts”) Labour’s claim that Howard will become PM if 2 in 50 Labour voters in 75 marginals switch to Lib Dem or abstain. With less than 65,000 voters per Labour-held seat and assuming 60% turnout, this means that the 2005 election could be decided by less than 50,000 votes!
With 6 million potential postal votes, the possibilities for fraud are – as we all know – enormous. In fact, it would only take 8 fraudulent postal votes out of every 1000 in these key marginals for the entire election to be determined by fraud!
Add to this the Guardian report the same day (29.4.05, “Thousands of faulty postal ballots sent out”) that in three constituencies alone over 23,000 invalid postal ballots papers were sent out, and one wonders which will have the greater influence on the future government of Britain: fraud or administrative cock-up.

don't worry - it's not that bad - those Labour figures are erroneous and being used to try and scare people into voting Labour under the pretence that the tories can actually win.

they can't, as mentioned many times on this and other blogs.