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26 Apr 2015

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East Devon Electoral/Returning Officer, EDDC, Electoral Commission, Voting

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The voting instruction mega-cock- up – it IS only East Devon Constituency and Mark Williams!

The explanation:

“All the District Elections and Town/Parish Council elections are administered by the Returning Officer for the relevant Constituency up until after the Constituency votes have been separated from the District and Town/Parish votes and the number of votes cast and spoilt papers, etc. has been reconciled with the Polling Station or postal voting accounts. At that point, the District and Town/Council votes are re-sealed into ballot boxes and transported to the relevant District Council on Friday 8th May for counting by the Returning Officer (Mark Williams) for the East Devon District Council.

So the postal voting instructions for East Devon Constituency were prepared by Mark Williams. The postal voting instructions for Tiverton and Honiton were prepared by Mid Devon Returning Officer and the postal voting instructions for Central Devon Constituency were prepared by West Devon Returning Officer.

So, it seems only Mark Williams (who has been the Returning Officer for East Devon for at least 9 years and maybe longer)  made mistakes in the postal voting instructions. Therefore, the correction letter is only going to the multi-seat wards within the East Devon Constituency.

Mr Williams has presumably been the Returning Officer since he started at East Devon District Council – we are not sure how long he has been CEO and Returning Officer but we have traced it back to at least 2006!

3 thoughts on “The voting instruction mega-cock- up – it IS only East Devon Constituency and Mark Williams!”

  1. The sooner we can change this anomaly in East Devon the better it will appear to all of us who have this apprehension that things are not as they should be at EDDC

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  2. Surely its clearly apparent to all that MARK WILLIAMS does not know what he is doing, such incompetence he has to go. Really need a total Shake up at EDDC, long long overdue.

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  3. Can we add to Mark Williams the name of Richard Cohen (deputy CEO ) who feels he has the power to make a decision and then act to investigate a complaint made agaist that decision??

    I think not.

    The Council may be under some scrutiny the Officers should be under even more

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