It comes as no surprise to find that ALL the councillors involved were standing for Labour.
A further quote from the esteemed Judge:
Deputy High Court judge Richard Mawrey QC said the case for the petitioners was that "alarm bells" should have rung when the contents of the boxes were revealed. Council election officials insist they were correct to allow votes from the boxes to stand. The three Bordesley Green councillors - Shafaq Ahmed, Shah Jahan and Ayaz Khan - deny any wrongdoing.
Which, I feel, demonstrates that it is an ethnic problem. Their culture sees nothing wrong in what they are doing. It is standard practice to rig elections in Pakistan and India.
This is also interesting from a George Galloway interview on US TV
Another new Labour councillor in the town of Blackburn, where the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw represents, and he was a close associate of Jack Straw, and he was a 65 or 67 year old man, has just been sent to prison for three and a half years for having been caught red-handed doing exactly the same thing.