Family voting is where two voters either confer, collude or direct each other on voting, which is illegal under the 2023 Ballot Secrecy Act.
Following the Gorton and Denton by-election, official election observer group Democracy Volunteers said it witnessed the highest amount of family voting in its 10-year history.
Democracy Volunteers are the only group, apart from the police, approved to stand inside a polling station.
They said they recorded 32 cases of family voting, with nine in one polling station alone.
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