People with Down’s syndrome are being refused the right to register to vote in Northern Ireland despite having voted in the past, it was claimed today.

People in the North wanting to vote in the European elections in June and who did not register for the last Assembly election still have time to do so, the chief electoral officer said today.

A Northern Ireland MP who switched parties came under more pressure today to resign his Westminster seat and seek a new mandate from voters.

Polling got under way today for Northern Ireland’s crucial Assembly election, with parties insisting that voting was following traditional patterns.

A former Ulster Unionist Party chief executive once stole £230 (€333) from the Northern Ireland Electoral Office, a court heard today.

David Trimble’s Ulster Unionist Party was today facing allegations that it produced bogus electoral registration forms in Northern Ireland.

A photographic identity card is to be introduced in a bid to combat electoral fraud in Northern Ireland, it emerged tonight.

The SDLP is to press for National Insurance numbers to be used at polling stations in a bid to stamp out electoral fraud, the party revealed today.