In another block on the same street, Kingward House, residents of one small flat from which six postal votes were cast said that only four people lived there and that they had not heard of the other two. Helal Rahman, a businessman and former Labour councillor in Spitalfields, said that “several hundred postal votes” in that one ward alone were cast on May 22 by people “who used to live here but have moved out to the suburbs. They keep their electoral registrations and convert their votes to postal,” he said.