An elections chief has admitted the upcoming local elections are unlikely to be delivered to the standard “that everybody would want to achieve”.
Peter Stanyon, who is chief executive of the association of electoral administrators, said there were still “unanswered questions” about how Voter ID will work at the ballot box.
“The majority of polling station staff are being trained as we speak, they are now beginning to understand the questions they will need to ask; the barrier that has potentially been put in there before we can actually issue that ballot paper,” he said.
