Postal voters in Walsall have being given incorrect information about the last date they can post their votes back for the European Parliamentary Elections due to take place next Thursday 4th June reports Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Shires.
In the instructions which accompany the Ballot Paper the council are telling people that if they post their ballot papers back after Monday 28th April then they may not arrive in time to be counted.
Clearly it’s a typographical error. When the text was “cut and pasted” from last years letter the date should have been changed to read Monday 1st June, it wasn’t, result chaos!
“The mistake came to light when phone calls started to come in from confused voters” said Ian, “we contacted the council who said that they were aware of it because they also had received phone calls from confused voters (surprise! surprise!).
“To compound things the only action taken was to post the correct information on the council’s website. I wonder how many people spotted that. It’s difficult enough getting people to vote with all that’s going on at Westminster around MP’s expenses. This is just adding to the problem” concluded Ian.
If you live in Walsall and have a postal vote you can still post it back. The last date that you can do this to be sure of it getting there in time is MONDAY 1st JUNE.
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