# The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012, Paragraph 55: Lists of rejected postal ballot papers or other postal voting documents

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(1) In respect of any election, the local returning officer must keep lists relating to rejected postal ballot papers or other postal voting documents as required by this paragraph.
(2) In the first list, the officer must record the ballot paper number of any postal ballot paper for which no valid postal voting statement was received with it.
(3) In the second list, the officer must record the ballot paper number of any postal ballot paper which is entered on a valid postal voting statement where that ballot paper is not received with the postal voting statement.
(4) In the third list, the officer must record, for every postal voting statement in the receptacle for rejected votes (verification procedure) immediately prior to sealing—
(a) the elector’s name and address (and the name and address of the proxy if the elector has a proxy);
(b) the elector’s number on the register of electors (and that of the proxy if the elector has a proxy);
(c) the specified reason or reasons for the rejection of the postal voting statement; and
(d) any other information relating to the rejection that the officer considers appropriate, but not the ballot paper number.
(5) The specified reasons that may be given under sub-paragraph (4)(c) for the rejection of a postal voting statement are as follows—
(a) the signature does not match the example held on the personal identifiers record;
(b) the date of birth does not match the one held on the personal identifiers record;
(c) the signature field is blank; or
(d) the date of birth field is blank.
(6) In the fourth list, the officer must, subject to sub-paragraph (9), record in relation to any elector whose postal voting documents were rejected in accordance with paragraph 43B or 46B or were left behind postal voting documents—
(a) the elector’s name and address (and the name and address of the proxy if the elector has a proxy),
(b) the elector’s number on the register of electors (and that of the proxy if the elector has a proxy),
(c) the specified reason or reasons for the rejection of the postal voting documents,
(d) an indication as to whether the postal voting documents included a postal ballot paper the number of which matched the postal ballot paper number marked on the postal voting statement, and
(e) any other information relating to the rejection that the officer considers appropriate, but not the postal ballot paper number.
(7) The specified reasons that may be given under sub-paragraph (6)(c) for the rejection of the postal voting document are—
(a) the postal voting documents were handed in at a polling station or to the returning officer but the return of postal voting documents form was not fully completed with the required information;
(b) the postal voting documents were handed in at a polling station or to the returning officer but the number of postal voting documents handed in exceeded or was suspected to exceed the permitted number;
(c) the postal voting documents were handed in by a political campaigner who was not permitted to hand in those postal voting documents;
(d) the postal voting documents were left behind postal voting documents.
(8) In compiling the fourth list the returning officer must open separately each covering envelope (including an envelope described in paragraph 46(2)) and each ballot paper envelope.
(9) The obligation in sub-paragraph (6) does not apply where an elector’s rejected postal voting documents do not include a postal voting statement.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1917/schedule/2/paragraph/55 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/schedule-2/paragraph-55
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