VOTING BY SECRET BALLOT

Early day motion 1015, tabled 4 April 2005 by Gordon Prentice (Labour). Signed by 28 members.

That this House believes that on-demand postal voting and the introduction of new ways of voting may fatally undermine public confidence in the integrity of the ballot; and urges the next Government to bring forward legislation with urgency to re-assert the primacy of the secret ballot, acknowledging that it is the cornerstone of the United Kingdom's democracy.

Signatures by party: Labour 14, Liberal Democrat 5, Conservative 4, UUP 4, Plaid Cymru 1.