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Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission |
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To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's
Committee on the Electoral Commission, if the Electoral Commission will make and publish
an urgent assessment of how many local returning officers failed performance standard
one in relation to European Parliament elections because polling cards were delivered
without adequate time to allow people to (a) change their registration details and
(b) apply for an absent vote; what the (i) earliest, (ii) latest and (iii) average
date was that local authorities sent out polling cards for the European Parliament
elections; what effect the delay between commencement of the statutory election timetable
on 15 April 2019 for all regions and formal Cabinet level confirmation on 7 May 2019
that the European Parliamentary elections would go ahead had on the decisions of local
authorities on when to send out polling cards; and if he will make a statement.
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