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Proceeding contribution from David Cairns (Labour) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 24 November 2010. It occurred during Legislative debate on Constitutional Law.
The Minister is praying in aid the expertise of the Electoral Management Board of Scotland. Does he recall that it comprises the very people who told us before the general election that if we proceeded with an overnight count, it would add two to three hours to the length of the count because of the need to check the identifiers on postal ballots? I said at the time that that was outrageous scaremongering to put us off having an overnight count and that they had not a shred of evidence. It turns out that I was right and they were wrong. Will the Minister deal with the Electoral Management Board with a degree caution, because up to now its advice has been spectacularly rubbish?

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Reference

519 c384 

Session

2010-12

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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