The pair are alleged to have received voting cards by mistake and been allowed to vote on showing them. It was the Liberal Democrats, who failed to win the Conservative-held seat, that raised the complaint. However, it is not suggested that the votes changed the outcome of the election.
Huntingdonshire District Council's returning officer David Monks told the BBC:
"I have passed some material to the police, which they are investigating."
Amazingly, it does not seem to be a unique occurrence Trevor Amiss, the council's registration officer, said:
"We have a handful of reports at every election of people putting their children on the [registration] form without their dates of birth.
So, who do people think the two children are most likely to have voted for??
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Every election seems to bring out these stories in the press "Oh look, stupid council, they've given a child the vote" (sometimes it's a dog). And next to them you have a photo of the the householder with a stupid grin on his face holding up the child/dog's poll card. That same householder who ought to be prosecuted for putting false information on the electoral registration form - because that's the only way the child/dog's name could actually have been put on the electoral register.
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