Former Labour local body candidate Daljit Singh has been convicted of electoral fraud:
A Labour Party candidate in the first Super City elections has been found guilty of two counts of using forged documents but has been acquitted on the remaining 18 electoral fraud allegations he faced.
Daljit Singh has been on trial in the High Court at Auckland on 20 charges of using forged documents to increase his chances of winning a seat on his local board.
The jury of 11 returned their verdicts this afternoon after deliberating for nearly five days.
Six other men - Gurinder Atwal, Davinder Singh, Mandeep Singh, Virender Singh, Paramjit Singh and Malkeet Singh - also stood trial for electoral fraud, but on fewer counts.
Good. The integrity of our electoral system is important, and its good to know that Singh will be held to account for attempting to subvert it.
