This decision was made after the Government Communications Center warned of a possible hacker attack and vote spoofing. As a result, the Conservative Party decided to change the original plans, according to which party members could change their choice during the voting process.
Mail-in ballots were supposed to start mailing out to party members on August 1st, but they still haven’t been sent out. The possibility of voting in two ways will be preserved — by mail and online. However, the unique code of each member of the Conservative Party will be deactivated after he votes. This means that it will be impossible to change the decision made.
Recall that on July 20, two candidates reached the finals of the struggle for the post of British Prime Minister – former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Minister Liz Truss. The fate of the future head of government and part-time leader of the conservatives will be decided by party members throughout the country — at the moment there are about 200,000 of them. The Tories will vote by mail and the results will be announced on September 5th.
Elections in Britain began on July 13 after the resignation of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson during the political crisis in the country, when 50 politicians from the government resigned. Initially, 11 people expressed their desire to participate in the struggle for the premiership, some of them left the race even before the first round of voting.
