Security (From Barry And District News)

Security

AS a representative and a candidate of the Liberal Party at the June 10, 2004 count, I was amazed to find security on the door into the election hall lax, to say the least lax. I had been informed by the Vale of Glamorgan Council a day previously that one could not enter the count, unless you had a card from them and your name compiled on a register.

On the evening however, anybody could turn up to the count - you could just walk in of the street. One or two individuals who were not involved with the election process - that I know of - entered the count in the main hall without being challenged.

I, like many of my fellow candidates, their agents and supporters worked hard over the weeks leading to the election, and of course at the count. It would have only taken one individual intent on disrupting the democratic process to ruin our hard work.

With all the media hype about terrorism, we cannot allow our elections to be placed at risk.

Karl-James Langford

Liberal Party

Bonvilston