Scottish Affairs - Fifth Report

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 7 May 2008.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1  Introduction

2  The Gould Report

The Question of responsibility

3  Role of the Scotland Office

The Elections Steering Group

Future responsibility for elections to the Scottish Parliament

4  Role of the Electoral Commission

5  Proposals for Change

The Ballot Paper
The combined ballot paper

Contingency planning

Party descriptions

Secrecy of the ballot

The Count

E-counting

Overnight Counting

Postal voting

'Decoupling' the elections

A Chief Returning Officer for Scotland

Returning Officers

Electoral legislation

6  Conclusion

Putting the voter's interests first

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral Eivdence

Tuesday 13 November 2007

Tuesday 15 January 2008

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Prepared 18 May 2008