AS A Labour Party supporter of 45 years plus, I never thought I would agree with Richard Drax (Echo, Friday Jan 30): The proposed changes in the voting system are wrong.

Our democracy is already compromised by the industrial scale of postal voting fraud. In some parts of the UK the ballot box has been replaced by the kitchen table.

To allow voting online is to exacerbate the problem. Am I the only one who is bombarded daily on my computer with fraudulent emails?

The recent massive turnout in Scotland shows that the way to increase participation is for political parties to find the right issue, e.g. the danger to the NHS, or regional devolution.

Also young people ought to be taught about the struggles that ensued to enable them to go to the polling station to vote. I vote because of my grandmother.

She never voted, because, one she wasn’t allowed to in those days, two she couldn’t read and three, she died before universal franchise.

Trevor Lindley
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