Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will assess the merits of introducing a process to cancel a postal ballot paper issued to an elector who is subsequently deleted from the electoral register during an election period.

Electoral law is clear that a person must be included in the register of electors for a
poll in order to be entitled to vote at that poll. The Government recognises that it is
possible for postal ballot papers to be issued to a postal voter who may subsequently
be removed from the register to be used at the poll. We will look to review the current
provisions on the cancellation of postal ballot papers to see whether improvements
can be made to the law in this area.