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Ok The Conspiracy Theories Are Off And Running.....postal Votes...etc
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A few sour grape whinners about but I don't think for a minute there was anything remotely bent about the Scottish referendum though it does highlight an issue. Personally I don't think postal votes should be allowed. If you don't care enough to go and vote then you don't deserve to vote in my opinion.
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"...they are for people who do "care enough to go and vote", but are otherwise engaged or not so able to make it to the ballot box."
"There are numerous valid reasons for a postal vote:- "
There now need be no valid reason for requesting a postal vote, agchristie and jim. They have been available on demand since 2001. A brief precis (which is not my work) of the evolution of postal votes in the UK:
Absent voting [which is what postal voting was first termed] was first introduced for the immediate post-war period in 1918 for servicemen and others prevented ‘by reason of the nature of their occupation…from voting at a poll’. These facilities were gradually expanded to include people in various occupations or those with disabilities to vote by post.
In 1983, in its review of electoral law, the Home Affairs Select Committee criticised the categories of absent voters who were allowed to vote by post. The Committee made clear that they would not wish absent voting facilities to be made available to everybody on demand but recommended that ‘the Home Office should review the existing criteria for eligibility for absent voting facilities, and in particular we suggest that it would be permissible to apply for a postal vote due to absence “by reason of employment”, without the necessity to distinguish between one type of employment or another. The Representation of the People Act 1985 subsequently made provision for these extensions to the right to apply for an absent vote.
By 1999 the system of postal and proxy voting for those unable to vote at polling stations was seen as cumbersome and complex. A Working Party on Electoral Procedures chaired by George Howarth, Minister of State at the Home Office, published its report in October 1999. The working party recommended that:
- Absent voting should be allowed on demand
- The application and voting procedures for absent voting should be simplified
The Representation of the People Act 2000 implemented the Howarth report’s recommendations. The Representation of the People (England & Wales) Regulations 2001 introduced the changes to the absent voting arrangements from 16 February 2001. The main change was to allow postal voting on demand.
"There are numerous valid reasons for a postal vote:- "
There now need be no valid reason for requesting a postal vote, agchristie and jim. They have been available on demand since 2001. A brief precis (which is not my work) of the evolution of postal votes in the UK:
Absent voting [which is what postal voting was first termed] was first introduced for the immediate post-war period in 1918 for servicemen and others prevented ‘by reason of the nature of their occupation…from voting at a poll’. These facilities were gradually expanded to include people in various occupations or those with disabilities to vote by post.
In 1983, in its review of electoral law, the Home Affairs Select Committee criticised the categories of absent voters who were allowed to vote by post. The Committee made clear that they would not wish absent voting facilities to be made available to everybody on demand but recommended that ‘the Home Office should review the existing criteria for eligibility for absent voting facilities, and in particular we suggest that it would be permissible to apply for a postal vote due to absence “by reason of employment”, without the necessity to distinguish between one type of employment or another. The Representation of the People Act 1985 subsequently made provision for these extensions to the right to apply for an absent vote.
By 1999 the system of postal and proxy voting for those unable to vote at polling stations was seen as cumbersome and complex. A Working Party on Electoral Procedures chaired by George Howarth, Minister of State at the Home Office, published its report in October 1999. The working party recommended that:
- Absent voting should be allowed on demand
- The application and voting procedures for absent voting should be simplified
The Representation of the People Act 2000 implemented the Howarth report’s recommendations. The Representation of the People (England & Wales) Regulations 2001 introduced the changes to the absent voting arrangements from 16 February 2001. The main change was to allow postal voting on demand.
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