Polling cards blunder

Published on 19th April 2007 in News

As election fever hits the town, residents in the north ward of Goole have complained after election polling cards were mistakenly posted out to them not once, not twice but THREE times from East Riding of Yorkshire Council (ERYC).

A Western Road resident, who did not wish to be named, told the Goole Times that, last week, both she and her husband received three polling cards each on separate days, inviting them to vote in the forthcoming ERYC ward elections, which will take place on May 3.

The resident said: "Each polling card that we were sent was identical to the last, and I know that other residents living on the same road to us received three cards each as well.

"I think it is ludicrous, it is such a waste of time and money. Who is paying for these and is ERYC going to keep sending them out to us?"

Residents living in Centenary Road and Attlee Drive, also in Goole North ward, have also complained after receiving three polling cards.

A spokesperson for ERYC told the Goole Times this week that people in two East Riding wards, Goole North and Wolds Weighton, had mistakenly been sent duplicate copies of their polling cards due to an administrative error. This had now been resolved.

The spokesperson said: "Despite the recent error, members of the public are advised that they can only vote once. No other wards in the county have been affected."