TNT brings home the bacon!

[BillS]

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A private postal company has delivered polling cards to the wrong addresses across London, risking chaos in this month’s local and European elections.

Scrapbook has learned that TNT post have bungled deliveries of polling cards in a second borough – Lambeth in South London.

It was revealed last week that polling cards had been delivered to the wrong addresses – or even dumped entirely – in the beleagured Tory borough of Barnet.

We’ve been told a similar story by voters in Lambeth. One person told Scrapbook they’d received three polling cards intended for the same house number on a completely different street.

They also received multiple cards addressed to minor variations of their own name.

When the Barnet foul up was revealed last week, Chukua Umuna said:

“If mistakes are being made by TNT, endangering the elections, this is hugely concerning and needs to be looked at immediately.”

It’s now become clear that the problem extends much further than Barnet alone – potentially to all 11 London councils using TNT for their deliveries.

The Electoral Commission rules for returning officers say:

“You should also have in place a mechanism for monitoring the delivery of poll cards, with a view to ensuring that they have been delivered across the whole of the counting area and to agreed timeframes….

…A poll card must be sent to the elector’s qualifying address or, in the case of a proxy, to the proxy’s address as shown in the list of proxies.”

The Commission’s performance standards for returning officers demands that they:

“Ensure poll cards are received by voters as soon as possible so that voters have the maximum amount of time to act on the information”

With foul ups still coming to light just 20 days before polls open, it looks like a few London returning officers are likely to be forfeiting their fees

[postmule]

Interesting that politicians become involved and express their concern when their election prospects could be affected. If TNT have been less than efficient in delivering polling cards then I suspect other mail has been similarly affected; where were the politicians then?

[Lounge Lizard]

Interesting that politicians become involved and express their concern when their election prospects could be affected. If TNT have been less than efficient in delivering polling cards then I suspect other mail has been similarly affected; where were the politicians then?