Results 181–200 of 900 for postal vote

Written Answers — Transport, Local Government and the Regions: Parish Councils (25 Feb 2002)

Alan Whitehead: A postal vote is already available to any eligible elector who requests it for the election of parish and community councils. Postal votes are not currently available for parish or community polls demanded at parish or community meetings, but as part of our initiatives, following the Rural White Paper (Cm 4909) to strengthen local democracy at parish level, we will be reviewing the operation...

Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces (Voting) (10 May 2006)

Tom Watson: holding answer 8 May 2006 Regular discussions are held with the Electoral Commission concerning Service voting issues, including the provision of postal and proxy voting forms to members of the armed forces. The Ministry of Defence and the Electoral Commission plan a joint electoral registration campaign in the autumn, in advance of the Scottish parliamentary election in 2007, which will...

Written Answers — Constitutional Affairs: Postal and Proxy Voting (22 May 2006)

Bridget Prentice: In relation to the recent local elections in London, I have received two representations regarding postal voting and no representations regarding proxy voting. Following on from an oral parliamentary question to me on postal voting fraud from the hon. Member for Congleton (Ann Winterton) on 9 May, the hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Djanogly) referred to postal voting allegations in the...

Regional Referendums (13 Sep 2004)

Bernard Jenkin: ...to say that it contained no surprises and raised a wry smile on my face. The Electoral Commission report is clear on several points that the Government have hitherto denied. Turnout in the all-postal voting regions was only five percentage points higher than elsewhere, and not 50 per cent. up as the Government falsely claimed. The public do not trust all-postal voting, and major reforms...

Clause 6 — Petition officers ( 3 Nov 2014)

Sylvia Hermon: ...that floated across the Chamber to him to correct what was said earlier. I must invite him to go back and look at the evidence taken after the general election about the serious problem with postal voting in Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Belfast West and other Sinn Fein constituencies. They had something like three times as many postal votes as any other constituencies throughout the UK, so...

Written Answers — Constitutional Affairs: Postal Votes ( 7 Jun 2004)

Chris Leslie: Individual Electoral Registration Officers keep records of the number of postal voters in their registration area, though separate records are not kept of long-term postal voters and those for one election only. It is possible to apply for a postal vote at any time, but figures are not maintained on a yearly basis. Available statistics show that at the 2001 general election, 1,758,055 postal...

Elections Bill - Committee (4th Day) (Continued): Amendment 97 (21 Mar 2022)

Baroness Scott of Bybrook: My Lords, as has been said, these amendments are to Clause 7, which concerns the important issue of the secrecy of the ballot for postal and proxy voters. The clause extends the requirements currently in place to protect the secrecy of voting for persons voting in polling stations to postal and proxy voting. These sensible change implementations are an important recommendation from the...

Written Answers — Constitutional Affairs: All-postal Ballots (14 Jun 2004)

Chris Leslie: Individual Electoral Registration Officers keep records of the number of postal voters in their registration area. For the elections on 10th June this year, in those regions not holding all-postal pilots, it was possible to apply for a postal vote at any time until Wednesday, 2 June and statistics are therefore still being compiled. I understand that the independent Electoral Commission are...

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Polling Stations: British Nationals Abroad (29 Jun 2017)

Chris Skidmore: The Government has no plans to establish polling stations in other countries in the foreseeable future. However, the Government previously took action to make postal voting a more feasible option for overseas voters by lengthening the electoral timetable and removing the restriction on issuing postal votes ahead of the postal vote application deadline. Overseas voters can also appoint a proxy...

Written Answers — Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission: Absent Voting (17 Nov 2014)

Gary Streeter: In England and Wales, 435,025 existing electors with a postal vote have not been confirmed. This amounts to 7% of postal voters in England and Wales. The Commission will report on the results of the confirmation process in Scotland, including the number of postal voters who have not been confirmed, by the end of November 2014. Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) have already written to all...

Written Answers — Justice: Elections (18 Jun 2008)

Bridget Prentice: The number of representations which my Department has received between 1 January 2006 to 16 June 2008 on (a) postal voting fraud and (b) voter under-registration is as follows: Subject 2006 2007 2008 Total number of representations( 1) Postal Voting Fraud 19 19 15 53 Voter Under-registration 14 0 29 43 (1) This is an approximate number of representations which...

Cheques: Clause 4 — Combination of polls ( 2 Nov 2010)

Mark Harper: ...to the Welsh Affairs Committee and I enjoyed it tremendously. I was sorry only that the experience was too short. I do not remember whether the hon. Gentleman was present when we debated the postal vote provisions in Committee, but the Government decided that the most sensible arrangement would be for standing postal vote provisions for a United Kingdom parliamentary election to kick in...

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Postal Voting (13 May 2003)

Chris Leslie: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has been very encouraged by the early indications that all-postal voting has been a success in the May 2003 local elections, and in the light of the Electoral Commission's evaluation of each pilot scheme we shall decide what steps to take on extending postal voting at local elections. Before making all-postal voting available as an option in all local...

Electoral Registration and Administration Bill: Schedule 1 — Register of electors: alterations and removal (18 Jun 2012)

Mark Harper: Those safeguards work only if the person with the postal vote is legitimate in the first place. The postal vote identifiers are very good for checking that the postal vote cast is the one for the person who has registered; there is a good check in that part of the system. That is not helpful, however, if the person who has registered has created a fictitious identity. We know that it is...

"Piloting conduct at European and local elections (18 Mar 2004)

Lord Hoyle: My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Rennard, forgets that in the north-west there will be a referendum in between, which will be a postal vote. They will be reverting to a postal vote, which will make it even more difficult. Could the noble Lord, Lord Rennard, tell me whether he is opposed to a postal vote for the referendum? Or is it in his interest that there might be a low poll? I invite him to...

Electoral Fraud — Question ( 1 Apr 2014)

Lord Wallace of Saltaire: My Lords, postal vote fraud has always been there. I am old enough to remember constituencies in which representatives of at least one party would go round old people’s homes and fill in the ballot papers with the matron. I will not name which parties might have been engaged in that. That is not new. Postal vote fraud is a problem with which we are all concerned. That is why postal vote...

New Clause 8: Amendment of Section 23 of 1949 Act (11 Dec 1968)

Mr Eric Lubbock: This Clause enables me to return to a point I made briefly on Second Reading, namely, the difference in treatment, as far as postal votes are concerned, between urban and rural district councils. This arises from Section 23 (7) of the Representation of the People Act, 1949, which states: Postal voting shall be allowed at all local government elections, except, in England and Wales,...

Written Answers — Electoral Commission Committee: Absent Voting: Fraud (10 Mar 2014)

Gary Streeter: ...to elections since 2002. The Commission included details about successful convictions for electoral fraud offences in an evidence and issues paper published in May 2013, including six cases of postal voting fraud. The following table shows the year, electoral event, offence and details of the convicted offenders for each of these cases.   Election Allegations Identity of offender(s)...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Elections: Proxy Voting ( 1 Nov 2006)

Baroness Ashton of Upholland: We will wish to study the judge's remarks carefully. The Electoral Administration Act 2006 includes a number of provisions to strengthen the security of proxy voting which we intend will all be in force at the May 2007 elections: The new personal identifiers provisions will apply to proxy votes. The elector who appoints the proxy will have to supply their date of birth and signature when...

Written Answers — Constitutional Affairs: All-postal Ballots (14 Jun 2004)

Chris Leslie: In the four all-postal pilot regions at the 10 June elections, the European Parliamentary and Local Elections (All-Postal) Pilot Order 2004 provided that where an incomplete declaration of identity was found within a ballot pack before noon on 8 June, the returning officer was required to return it to the elector, along with a letter explaining that a completed declaration was needed in...


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