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<p>The British public deserves to have confidence in our democracy and the Government
is committed to ensuring that our electoral system is fit for the future.</p><p>Next
year, Peterborough and Pendle will be piloting measures to improve the integrity of
the postal and proxy vote process. This builds on similar pilots in 2018.</p><p>In
addition, the Government is looking to introduce measures which will prohibit party
campaigners from handling postal votes, and apply a limit to the number of postal
ballots that any one individual can hand in at a polling station. The provisions will
be backed up by a new offence, and will make a significant contribution to enhancing
the security of postal voting. There is currently a Government supported Private Members’
Bill in the House of Commons looking to introduce this policy.</p><p>The Government
is considering the way forward on the other recommendations made by Sir Eric Pickles,
a number of which relate to absent voting, and will continue to consider how to improve
the integrity of electoral processes more generally.</p><p>The Government is committed
to strengthening our electoral processes and enhancing public confidence in the rigour
of those democratic processes.</p>
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