Attention France! A Tory candidate may take legal action over Post Office postal vote chaos which may have cost him his marginal seat. TWO million proxy votes were caste in the first round of the French election

From media

A Tory candidate who was defeated by just 15 votes is considering taking legal action over alleged postal vote chaos in his constituency.

Ameet Jogia, who was defeated by his Labour rival in the north London constituency of Hendon, may launch a judicial review against Barnet Council.

Mr Jogia, a former Downing Street adviser, has accused the council of being responsible for failures over postal votes that “lost me the vote”.

Thousands of people across the country were denied their chance to vote in Thursday’s election, with as many as 120 constituencies affected by delayed and missing ballots.

Election officials have argued that campaigns should be made five days longer in order to give councils more time to register voters and avoid similar chaos at future elections.

Mr Jogia told The Telegraph that he personally knows of around a dozen constituents who told him they would have voted for him but their postal votes never arrived.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/06/election-postal-vote-tory-candidate-defeated/