Memorandum by West Lancashire District
Council (PVF 25)
GENERAL
1. Did you experience problems because
the Government was slow in publishing the necessary statutory
instruments?
2. Were problems caused by the very
short time scale between close of nominations and the need to
deliver postal voting documents to electors?
3. Earlier Pilots has been self selecting—ie
those who were keen and had the resources volunteered. Did the
fact that all-postal ballots were mandatory for these elections
cause problems with skills and resources?
A Suppliers of printing and collation
were in short supply
4. Have you received/reported any allegations
of fraud?
PRINTING AND
DISSEMINATION
5. Was there sufficient printing capacity
to cope with all-postal elections?
6. Did any of the ballot papers need
re-printing? If so how many and why?
A No—not that were are aware off
7. Do you have any comments to make
on the performance of Royal Mail?
A Royal Mail's performance was excellent.
Following the late arrival of our ballot papers to the Mail Centres
they pulled out all the stops to ensure ballot packs were delivered
to voters and returned to us without delay. Without this support
and willingness of Royal Mail the Postal Pilot could have been
a disaster.
8. A 29
9. Any one who contacted the office to report
not receiveing the ballot packs were sent re issues this figure
was 60. Cannot account for figures of voters who did not contact
the office.
VOTING PRACTICALITIES
AND RETURNS
10. A Voters were unsure as to who
could be a witness, we received a number of calls asking could
a member of the family be the witness.
C Yes we did have a large number of
calls from people complaining that the instructions were not clear.
11. A 150 to date
12. Yes
13. N/A
COST AND
RESOURCES
14. A Yes
Not yet known
The overall cost has increased significantly,
have not received all invoices therefore the over all cost not
yet known.
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