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The Mirror has launched the People's Electoral Commission as we ask our readers to help us investigate alleged Tory election fraud.

We aim to publish online the electoral spending returns of every one of this Government's 330 MPs for the country to judge whether they were entirely truthful about their spending.

The Mirror was the first to break the story in March that more than two dozen Tory MPs benefited from battlebuses packed with Tory activists but failed to declare any of the costs.

On the back of our story, there are now 11 police forces investigating these allegations and any MPs found guilty face up to a year in jail.

This could be the tip of the iceberg but time is running out for police to investigate. The authorities have just one year from the date the spending return was filed to launch an investigation and by June 11 it will be too late.

Prime Minister David Cameron's Government has a wafer thin majority of 12 MPs and so just six by-elections could topple his regime.

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Under current rules, election spending returns are not published online. Instead they are held by returning officers in council offices and only made available for inspection on request. This is outdated and should change.

Another anomaly is that the expert body in these spending rules – the real Electoral Commission - is in charge of national spending by political parties but has no power to investigate spending by individual candidates. That is currently a job for the police.

It has been asking Mr Cameron for new powers since 2013 but his Government has not replied.

Bob Posner, Directory of Party and Election Finance said: “The law currently stops short of giving the Commission the power to enforce candidates' spending rules and only the police can investigate if there's a problem. It's time to end that anomaly and give us the power to investigate and sanction.”