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<p>The law provides for the checking of the integrity of completed postal ballots
prior to them being included in the count. Returning Officers are required to check
100% of postal vote identifiers (signatures and dates of birth) returned with completed
postal votes against those supplied by the elector when they applied for a postal
vote. Any that do not match will not be counted in order to prevent any attempt at
electoral fraud. The law requires that postal ballot papers are mixed with ballot
papers from a ballot box before they can be counted as a necessary step in order to
help protect the secrecy of the ballot.</p>
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