National Assembly for Wales Elections

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Electoral Commission Committee – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 24 June 2002.

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Photo of Alan Beith Alan Beith Liberal Democrat, Berwick-upon-Tweed 2:30, 24 June 2002

All-postal voting in the National Assembly elections would require primary legislation. The commission is evaluating the use of all-postal voting in recent local elections, but because of the time needed to make that evaluation, and to introduce primary legislation, it is fairly unlikely that all-postal voting could be introduced in time for the Assembly elections.