POSTAL VOTING

Early day motion 1492, tabled 24 June 2002 by Mike Wood (Labour). Signed by 85 members.

That this House welcomes the Government's attempts to make voting easier and more convenient; acknowledges that a postal vote facility does have a positive impact on turnout, but expresses its concern at the potential opportunity for abuse of the postal vote system; and therefore calls upon the Government to make it compulsory for returning officers to publish a marked register of those who receive and cast postal votes at Parliamentary, European and council elections as an initial step towards investigating and clamping down on such fraud.

Signatures by party: Labour 65, Liberal Democrat 7, Conservative 5, Labour/Co-operative 5, Plaid Cymru 2, UUP 1.