Bradford Council worker faces election fraud charges

The Bradford Telegraph and Argus reports:

A Bradford Council worker has appeared in court charged with forging signatures on election documents.

Raja Qurban, 38, is accused of four offences – one of fraud and three of forgery – which were alleged to have taken place while he was employed in the electoral services department…

His job was to go from house-to-house to check the electoral register, see who was at each address and get signatures. He was due to be paid £1.50 for every form he got signed.

The court was told: “Bradford Council became suspicious when they looked at the forms and thought that some of the signatures did not match signatures they previously had on other forms.”