Local Elections -May 2023 and photo-id at polling stations.
Case reference FOI2023/00559
Published 29 March 2023
Request
Q1. What information concerning photo-id requirements will be given to people managing each polling station?
Q2. Will it require a record to be kept of the number of voters failing to provide photo-id or the legal equivalent?
Q3. If the answers to Q1 and Q2 are not available at present, when will they be available?
Response
Q1. What information concerning photo-id requirements will be given to people managing each polling station?
Each presiding officer and poll clerk are receiving face to face and on-line training relating to the new requirements, plus they will be given the Electoral Commission polling station handbook that covers the new requirements.
Q2. Will it require a record to be kept of the number of voters failing to provide photo-id or the legal equivalent?
Polling station staff will complete the two additional forms that Government have asked polling station staff to complete during the day.
Q3. If the answers to Q1 and Q2 are not available at present, when will they be available?
Not applicable.
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