The Minister talks about the choice of using postal voting, but one of the awkward aspects of the system is the fact that people never quite know when their postal votes will arrive. Have the Government considered having a central point in each constituency at which people would be able register their votes in person after postal votes were available? Some people cannot be sure that they will receive their postal vote before they leave on holiday and so on. Such a central point in each constituency at which they could vote in person up until polling day would take away some of the distrust in the postal system.
Electoral Administration Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord McLoughlin
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 25 October 2005.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Electoral Administration Bill.
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