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Electoral Administration Bill

I said on Second Reading that part of the difficulty with postal voting ballots is that many authorities did not want them and dragged their feet. That is part of the difficulty, but in both Trafford and Salford I worked on incredibly successful postal voting pilots where there was no suggestion or suspicion of fraud. The question is really whether you want to do it, whether all parties want to do it and whether you work at it. Sam Younger does not believe in including national insurance numbers, so that is a dead duck. If the Electoral Commission does not support you, you should not be making that proposal—[Interruption.] Well, you cannot have it both ways.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
439 c238 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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