Voting by proxy means appointing someone else to vote on your behalf because you aren’t able to make it in person to vote. It is usually an alternative to postal voting, whereby you still cast your own vote, but by post rather than having to turn out to a specific place at a particular time.
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 »
As with the timetable for the 2017 local elections, this timetable is based on the one published by the Electoral Commission. … Read the full post »
Here is the electoral timetable for this May’s council elections in England, Scotland and Wales. … Read the full post »
A long list of recommendations should always have a careful reader diving for the details to see quite what is lurking in the list. … Read the full post »
The Electoral Commission can recommend that Returning Officers face a financial penalty for failing to run elections well – as happened after the Tower Hamlets elections in 2014. … Read the full post »
See all the details of the deadlines for the 2016 European referendum, such as last day to apply for a postal vote. … Read the full post »
5pm Thursday 7th May: that’s the deadline for the reissuing of a postal vote in cases of postal votes having gone astray or the paperwork being messed up. … Read the full post »
5pm Tuesday 28 April: that’s the deadline for new proxy vote applications (though it’s now too late to get a postal proxy). … Read the full post »
Over the weekend I reported on complaints about the Green Party’s proxy voting campaign in Brighton, handing out forms pre-completed with the names of Green Party activists. … Read the full post »
5pm Tuesday 21 April: that’s the deadline for making a new postal or postal proxy vote application. … Read the full post »