Election fraud has been reported in the just concluded referendum held in Scotland over its independence.
On Thursday, September 18, 2014, Scottish people voted to remain under the United Kingdom in a hotly contested election that has impassioned the country.
However, some voters in Scotland turned up at polling stations to find that people had already voted using their names, according to the Daily Mail UK.
Authorities have confirmed that there had been 10 instances where people had gone to vote and found their names had already been crossed off the list.
“We’ve had a number of suggestions across the course of the day that people have turned up at the polling station to vote and they appear to have voted already,” spokesperson of the Glasgow City Council, Colin Edgar said. ““This is impersonation, if it turns out to be what it is.”
Election night, Thursday, police officers were present at the count to remove the ballot papers and keep them as evidence towards an investigation.
The tainted papers were from 10 different boxes across Glasgow.
Stewart Hosie, Scotland National Party (SNP) Treasury spokesman at Westminster, said it was “very sad that people feel the need to engage in any kind of impersonation.”
“I think that’s a daft thing to do. The ballot papers have been identified, they will be taken away and fingerprinted, the police will do their job and I’m sure whoever has done it will be caught and sentenced.
“That’s the correct procedure. It won’t change the result but of course it shouldn’t have happened, it is a silly, silly, thing for anyone to try to do.”
Post elections clashes between pro-independence and pro-United Kingdom supporters were reported at Independence Square, Glasgow.
SLIDESHOW: A LOOK Inside Scotland’s Independence Vote
Yes and No campaign signs on a lamppost in Blantyre. (Photo Credit: The Guardian/Murdo MacLeod)
Photo Credit: Jill Lawless/AP
Differing opinions at a home in Burnmouth. (Photo Credit: Lesley Martin / AFP / Getty Images)
A farm vehicle in Duns. (Photo Credit: Lesley Martin / AFP / Getty Images)
At Steel Engineering in Renfrew. (Photo Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
A rally in Glasgow. (Photo Credit: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
Mugs at the Better Together campaign office in Edinburgh. (Photo Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
A campaigner in Pilton. (Photo Credit: Matt Cardy /Getty Images)
Students in Aberdeen. (Photo Credit: Andy Rain / EPA)
A tattoo in Glasgow. (Photo Copy: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Foam fingers in Edinburgh. (Photo Credit: Lesley Martin / AFP / Getty Images)
A dog in Edinburgh. (Photo Credit: Ben Stansall / AFP / Getty Images)
Fingernails in Renfrew. (Photo Credit: Leon Neal / AFP / Getty Images)
In a pub in Glasgow. (Photo Credit: Leon Neal / AFP / Getty Images)
People in traditional highland dress in Edinburgh. (Photo Credit: Ben Stansall / AFP / Getty Images)
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond poses for photographs with school children after casting his ballot at Ritchie Hall in Strichen, Scotland, Sept. 18, 2014. (Photo Credit: AP/Scott Heppell)
A man arrives to cast his ballot at Ritchie Hall in Strichen, Scotland, Sept. 18, 2014. (Photo Credit: AP/Scott Heppell)
A dog wearing a pro-independence 'Yes' bandana is walked on a street in Glasgow, Scotland, on polling day for a referendum on Scotland's independence, Sept. 18, 2014. (Photo Credit: Ian MacNicol/AFP/Getty Images)
A house in east Glasgow, Scotland, is decorated with a pro-independence slogan, on Sept. 18, 2014. (Photo Credit: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images)
Painters paint over Yes graffiti at Jamestown Parish Church Lennox Hall on Sept. 18, 2014 in Jamestown, Scotland. (Photo Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Yes supporters react to motorists passing the Church Hill Theatre polling place in Morningside, Edinburgh on Sept. 18, 2014. (Photo Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Voters at Notre Dame Primary School polling station in Glasgow, Scotland on Sept. 18, 2014. (Photo Credit: Mark Runnacles/Getty Images)
Voters leave a polling place in Morningside, Edinburgh on Sept. 18, 2014. (Photo Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
A voter holds up his polling card outside a polling place in Morningside, Edinburgh on Sept.18, 2014. (Photo Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Former Gordon Highlander Jock Robertson, 81, pauses at a polling station after voting in the Scottish referendum on Sept. 18, 2014 in Peebles, Scotland. (Photo Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
A pro-union campaigner waits to distribute leaflets to voters at a polling station in west Glasgow, Scotland, on polling day for a referendum on Scotland's independence, Sept. 18, 2014. (Photo Credit: Ian MacNicol/AFP/Getty Images)
Pro-independence and pro-union campaigners are pictured outside a polling station in east Glasgow, Scotland, on Sept. 18, 2014, during a referendum on Scotland's independence. (Photo Credit: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images)
Voters walk outside a polling station in Edinburgh on Sept. 18, 2014, during Scotland's independence referendum. (Photo Credit: LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond (front C) poses with supporters of the 'Yes Campaign', in Edinburgh, Scotland September 9, 2014. (Photo Credit: REUTERS/Russell Cheyne)
Two jockeys at the Musselburgh Racecourse in Edinburgh. (Photo Credit: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images)
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