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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

There is a corollary to what the Minister says, then. If people are registered to vote by post for a parliamentary election, and they then receive the ballot paper for the AV referendum, is it not likely that they will fill in that ballot paper without going to the polling station in order to cast a vote in the local council elections, thereby deflating turnout in the local council elections, which are extremely important?

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Reference

517 c48 

Session

2010-12

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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