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<p>The Electoral Commission has a statutory role in registering party descriptions,
and already has the power to not register certain types of descriptions, including
those which are either offensive or misleading to the voter. These duties are set
out in legislation and it is important that the Electoral Commission fulfils these
efficiently and effectively. Following an incident earlier in the year when the Electoral
Commission mistakenly registered an extremely offensive party description, an independent
review made some recommendations about future practice which the Electoral Commission
accepted.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has no plans to review the powers and governance
of the Electoral Commission. The 11th report of the Committee on Standards in Public
Life, Review of the Electoral Commission, recommended that the role of the Electoral
Commission should be streamlined and re-focused into two core roles as a regulator
of (a) political party funding and (b) of electoral administration. This recommendation
was accepted by Government and the Electoral Commission.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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