Green Party MEP Ciarán Cuffe admits using fake research company to canvass voters

Cuffe used around 20 volunteers with a fake ballot paper to do a pre-election poll, pretending to be an independent research company

Green Party MEP Ciarán Cuffe is the latest politician to admit to using volunteers and party members pretending to be independent pollsters for carrying out covert election research. Photograph: Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie

Green Party MEP Ciarán Cuffe has admitted using a fake research company to canvass voters.

Mr Cuffe used around 20 volunteers with a fake ballot paper to do a pre-election poll in 2002, pretending to be an independent research company.