Lib Dems complain over elections
Tuesday 16th June 2009, 3:53PM BST.
Shropshire Liberal Democrats are making a formal complaint to the Electoral Commission about the standard of service given to voters during the unitary council election.
They allege that many new electors, and existing ones, applied to to have their names put on the electoral roll but these did not appear.
It is claimed many people who applied for postal votes never received them while others received them after the published date of issue and after they had gone on holiday. Voters applying late for a postal vote were not advised they had the option of having a proxy vote.
The Lib Dems also claim questions have been raised about the behaviour of some officers removing ballot papers from the view of scrutineers. Constituency chairman, Colin Taylor, said “We are not talking about isolated incidents of poor administration but of significant numbers of electors being denied the right to vote across the county.”
Claire Porter, Shropshire Council assistant chief executive, said: “We are satisfied the elections were administered accurately.”
She added: “If an official complaint has been made to the Electoral Commission we will of course fully co-operate with them.”
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