Over a dozen police forces in the UK are ramping up their investigations of allegations of huge election fraud by the Tory party. Police say the scale of the fraud is unfolding to staggering proportions, and have accused the Conservative party of attempting to cover it up by silencing the media from reporting on it. The 33 constituencies involved so far see 29 Tory MPs implicated in breaking the law. Theantimedia.org reports: Due to the rapidly unfolding situation, a recap is necessary. U.K. law says any sum spent promoting local election candidates must be declared on legal spending returns. Failure to declare such expenditures is a criminal offence. The electoral commission has clear guidelines, defining two types of spending on election campaigns as “Party Campaign Spending” and “Candidate Spending.” In April, a Channel 4 investigation uncovered receipts showing that in some areas of the U.K., in the run-up to last May’s election, the Tories spent money allocated as party campaigning that should have been assigned as candidate spending. By law, candidates must not spend more than £100,000 on by-election campaigns. But as Channel 4 reported: “In each area, the party was determined to win. But did candidates break the law when declaring their [...]