Who gets a postal vote in the alternative vote (AV) referendum?
Any voter can apply for a postal (or proxy) vote in the usual way for May’s elections, including the AV referendum. … Read the full post »
Read my posts about the use of postal voting in public elections, its impact on turnout and the fraud risks that go with it.
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Any voter can apply for a postal (or proxy) vote in the usual way for May’s elections, including the AV referendum. … Read the full post »
Details of how the Electoral Commission proposes to administer next May’s referendum on the voting system (provided it passes Parliament) have emerged in a series of circulars issued by the Commission last week. … Read the full post »
A quick update about Walsall Conservative councillor Mohammed Munir, whose suspension from the party after postal vote fraud allegations relating to the 2008 local election I previously covered. … Read the full post »
Confidence in the administration of elections by Bristol Council was badly shaken this May after a series of problems, including ballot papers found in the wrong place. … Read the full post »
Conservative candidate Gulfam Wali has been arrested by the police as part of an investigation into electoral fraud at the 2010 elections. He was later cleared. … Read the full post »
The problems with electoral administration ranged far wider than those which caught the headlines. Perhaps the weirdest came in one polling station in Burnley where the caretaker was getting everyone turning up to vote to sign in and out of the building “for health and safety” reasons. … Read the full post »
The Guardian today seems to confuse application forms for postal votes with the actual ballot papers that postal voters receive. … Read the full post »
During the week Alex Foster blogged about the case of Bristol East Labour MP Kerry McCarthy who is facing a police investigation following a tweet giving voting figures from a postal vote opening. … Read the full post »
First, the good news: all the reports so far indicated a strong surge in people registering just before the deadline earlier this month. … Read the full post »
There have been two further recent reports of police investigations into postal vote and related allegations involving this year’s local elections. … Read the full post »