Postal vote appeals to one in ten

MORE than one in ten of local residents will vote in the elections without going to a polling station.
By The Newsroom
Published 28th Apr 2005, 16:34 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 19:50 BST

Election staff at Rother have been inundated with applications for postal votes.

It's double the number who voted from home in the 200l General Election.

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Town Hall staff are working through no fewer than 6,974 Bexhill and Battle constituency applications plus another 1,000 from constituency electors who live just over the Wealden boundary in Hooe and Ninfield.

As the Observer closed for press yesterday the number of applications from Rother residents who live in the Hastings and Rye constituency was still being totalled.

The huge leap in applications follows changes in the rules governing postal voting. Stringent security is in place following national fears over possible corruption.

Conservative Gregory Barker is defending a 10,503 majority in the General Election.

He is opposed by Michael Jones (Labour), Mary Varrall (Liberal Democrat) and Tony Smith (UKIP).

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