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We used to just call these "paper candidates". All parties field them in seats where they don't really have a chance.
I didn't hear anything from the Lib Dems or Greens in my constituency, because they have no chance of winning. But I know they're definitely real people.
The article says that's what reform is claiming they were.
The concern is that they were not even that. If they've just put names down without actually finding a real people to go behind them then it's open and shut electoral fraud.
You need to have people to nominate the candidate, the papers also need to be handed in by either the election agent or the candidate themselves. There would need to be an awful lot of people in on it for this to even work.
The person in question who is pictured has been interviewed anyway: https://www.gbnews.com/politics/reform-uk-candidate-hits-back-trolling-ai-bot (I know it's GB News, but it shows him on camera).
They also had to russle up a lot of candidates and hope to hell that no dirt was dragged up about them because there wasn't time to vet them.
10 per candidate. However, they could easily have just been given the name and told that's who they were nominating.
Unlike voting don't need to present ID to be a candidate. So a couple of people could have made their way around presenting papers.