Conservative candidate left off council by-election ballot paper
Charnwood Council is getting in touch with postal voters for the Shelthorpe by-election after a candidate’s name was left off ballot papers. … Read the full post »
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Charnwood Council is getting in touch with postal voters for the Shelthorpe by-election after a candidate’s name was left off ballot papers. … Read the full post »
“You don’t strengthen our democracy by making it harder for people to vote” – Alistair Carmichael. … Read the full post »
Section 66 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 bans the publication of exit polls before the close of polls in an election – and that can cover retweeting how someone else has voted. … Read the full post »
A major printing error on Gosport Council ballot papers for postal voters means they are all having to be reissued. … Read the full post »
Woking Council is making it sound like additional ID requirements are in place for postal vote applications, even though they are not. … Read the full post »
Another consequence of the serious cyber attack on Hackney Council has emerged, with the Town Hall asking registered postal voters to submit new applications. … Read the full post »
“Mail-In Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign” – this new research shows it isn’t social media algorithms that are primarily to blame but rather another type of algorithm. … Read the full post »
The police has concluded the evidence doesn’t stack up for various claims of law-breaking during the Peterborough Parliamentary by-election. … Read the full post »
Welcome to the latest in my occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today – how do party efforts to persuade supporters to sign up for postal votes work? … Read the full post »
Don’t miss out on your chance to vote: you can sign up for a postal vote or a proxy vote (appointing someone to vote on your behalf) if you won’t be able to make it to your local polling station to vote in person on polling day. … Read the full post »