Voter Authority Certificates Debate
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Baroness Taylor of Bolton
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Voter Authority Certificates
Baroness Taylor of Bolton Excerpts(1 year, 7 months ago)
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Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con)
Both the Electoral Commission and the Government have been working with electoral staff continuously since the Act came in. What will be collected at polling stations will include the numbers and the reasons why electors have been turned away, if they have, whether they returned and whether they voted later, as well as other aspects of the policy. This will just be adding to what they would normally collect in a polling station.
Baroness Taylor of Bolton (Lab)
My Lords, will the Minister take this opportunity to apologise for those Conservative leaflets that have been distributed in Norwich and other places, specifically telling people that they do not need ID to vote?
Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con)
As a Norfolk resident, I have taken that issue forward.