I don’t think that would be an outlandish suggestion. Especially in areas where women are particularly subjugated - covered up and not allowed to socialise freely - or may have no English. The current Mayor of Tower Hamlets, a Muslim man, was convicted of serious electoral fraud and coercion and banned from public office for 5 years. He stood again after the ban and, surprise, got elected again.
I don’t understand why a conviction for electoral fraud does not attract a ban for life. But then neither does being a convicted terrorist or battering a man with a pick axe handle and posing for selfies with crack dealers so hey ho
From the article:
The sorts of offences that constitute electoral fraud in Britain are set out in the Representation of the People Act 1983 (White and Johnston, 2017). These include: undue influence (pressuring someone into voting or not voting); impersonation; bribery; treating (non-monetary bribery); and supplying false information (e.g., falsely registering on the electoral roll, or submitting fraudulent postal votes). Over the last few years, several official reports have highlighted that allegations of electoral fraud tend to be more common in areas with large Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities (Electoral Commission, 2014, Pickles and Eric, 2016, White and Johnston, 2017). In his 2016 review into electoral fraud, Sir Eric Pickles identified a number of incidents involving Britons of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin.1First, he noted (p. 22),
Evidence was presented of pressure being put on vulnerable members of some ethnic minority communities, particularly women and young people, to vote according to the will of the elders, especially in communities of Pakistani and Bangladeshi background
Second, he noted (p. 28)
The review considered evidence of voters in Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities reporting concerns that the secrecy of the ballot was undermined by party activists' knowledge about their choice to vote by post
Third, he noted (p. 45),
In the Tower Hamlets case, the Election Court heard how a voter was seen crying outside a polling station after allegedly being told by a supporter of Lutfur Rahman that it was “un-Islamic” not to vote for Rahman, and that you were “not a good Muslim” if you did not vote for him. The court found that Muslim clerics had participated in Lutfur Rahman's campaign to persuade Muslim voters that it was their religious duty to vote for him
Indeed, the finding by the Electoral Commission in it's 2014 report that allegations of electoral fraud are particularly common in some Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities inspired at least two subsequent academic studies. Gill et al. (2015) carried out qualitative interviews in eight electoral wards with large Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities: four that had been identified as having a high risk of electoral fraud, and four that had not
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261379417300811