On 18th December Mary Pitcaithly, the Chief Counting Officer, and Ian Milton, the Chair of the Scottish Assessors Association (SAA) Electoral Registration Committee, were questioned for an hour by the Scottish Parliament’s Devolution (Further Powers) Committee. The obscure question in…
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Problems with appointing Emergency Proxies in the Scottish Referendum
Posted in referendum Tagged with: electoral commission, emergency proxy votes, Lewis Macdonald, scottish independence referendum, Scottish Parliament
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Electoral Commission Confirm That Police Are Still Investigating Postal Vote Sampling
The Scottish Independence Referendum Act requires the Electoral Commission to lay a report before the Scottish Parliament “on the conduct of the referendum”. This report was laid with the Parliament today. The Act is vague about what the report should…
Posted in postal voting Tagged with: electoral commission, humza yousaf, postal vote counting, postal votes, ruth davidson
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Update on Postal Vote Counting Investigation
After a minor flurry of interest around Ruth Davidson’s referendum night admission on BBC television that Better Together were counting samples of postal votes and her subsequent interview by the police, the story has gone completely dead in the media.…
Posted in postal voting Tagged with: crown office, electoral commission, police scotland, scottish independence referendum act
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