'Last minute' postal votes could delay the results of next year's council elections, an electoral chief has claimed. The Association of Electoral Administrators' aptly named spokesperson Malcolm Dumper (perhaps a suggestion as to what to do with excess votes, as in this picture from the Haiti elections), says that new regulations aimed at stamping out postal vote fraud could see delays in the counting of votes. He added that while postal votes for next May's council election will give voters the chance to make their vote early, an increasing number of voters are submitting their votes using 'last-minute' Royal Mail delivery.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Postal Votes Could Delay Election Results
'Last minute' postal votes could delay the results of next year's council elections, an electoral chief has claimed. The Association of Electoral Administrators' aptly named spokesperson Malcolm Dumper (perhaps a suggestion as to what to do with excess votes, as in this picture from the Haiti elections), says that new regulations aimed at stamping out postal vote fraud could see delays in the counting of votes. He added that while postal votes for next May's council election will give voters the chance to make their vote early, an increasing number of voters are submitting their votes using 'last-minute' Royal Mail delivery.
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