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# Electoral Fraud and Violence Against Journalists
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2010/05/electoral_fraud_and_violence_against_jou/
- Published: 2010-05-04T17:09:22.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-28T13:05:57.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: elections, investigative journalism, Journalism, Politics

I’m surprised by how little reaction to this story has cropped up amongst the social spaces I inhabit online:

\> I didn’t, but I explained I was a journalist for \[The Independent\](http://www.independent.co.uk/ "The Independent") looking to speak to a man at an address in the area, who was standing as a candidate in the local elections, about allegations of postal vote fraud. “Can we see your note pad,” the boy asked. > > I declined and then the first punch came – landing straight on my nose, sending blood and tears streaming down my face. Then another. Then another. 

An Independent journalist, investigating electoral fraud, is [beaten up in the pursuit of a story](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-first-punch-came-landing-on-my-nose-sending-blood-down-my-face-1961464.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). As Brian Micklethwait, a blogger whose work I have long enjoyed, [puts it on Samizdata](http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2010/05/how%5Fjerome%5Ftayl.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), a libertarian blog:

\> Isn’t trying to learn the truth about things, sometimes naively and foolishly, going where people who already know it all are too wise to venture, what journalism is all about? 

\*Yes\*. And that’s why I think this might be a more important story than many that have washed over the media in this election campaign. 

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