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London Elections 2022: Where is my closest polling station, what is tactical voting and can I vote without a polling card or ID?

Elections in May will give local residents the chance to choose councillors, who deal with matters from social care to bin collection

Evening Standard

With all eyes on Ukraine, the UK is quietly set to disenfranchise 2 million citizens

The elections bill is an anti-democratic rush job and does nothing to address the problem of donations from those living overseas, says former head of the civil service Bob Kerslake

The Guardian - UK

NSW Electoral Commission to pay for new council elections after iVote bungle

The NSW Electoral Commission has been ordered to cover the costs of holding fresh elections in three councils where its online voting software, iVote, failed during the 2021 local government elections.

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Russian-born husband of Tory donor ‘earned millions via oligarch connections’

Vladimir Chernukhin’s wife, Lubov, has given Conservatives more than £2m

The Guardian - UK

Abuse or threaten election candidates and we will call you out, warns council leader

Rob Stewart has urged everyone to behave respectfully

Wales Online

South Australians report not receiving their postal votes after applications through political websites

The South Australian Electoral Commission has been fielding "a lot of calls" from confused voters who mistakenly tried to register for a postal vote from political websites.

ABC News

South Australian electoral commissioner forced to withdraw dozens of early votes

The Electoral Commission of South Australia admits dozens of votes have had to be withdrawn because of an issue at an early voting centre in Adelaide's south.

ABC News

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SA election pre-poll voting begins, with 120,000 people registered to cast early ballots

As pre-poll voting gets underway in SA, the state's Electoral Commission expects a record number of people to cast their ballots in advance because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABC News

Poll watchdog sheds light on false claims

The electoral commission has launched a register of false claims ahead of the federal poll to combat disinformation.

AAP

SA Electoral Commission clears Liberals over attack ads on Labor health policy and Peter Malinauskas

South Australia's electoral commissioner knocks back a Labor bid to shut down Liberal Party advertising attacking the closure of a hospital in a key marginal seat.

ABC News

The subtle but deadly threat to UK democracy

Letters: The independence of the Electoral Commission must be protected from this government, write Tom Brake, Kyle Taylor, Mark Kieran and Jess Garland

The Guardian - UK

Elections watchdog blasts Michael Gove over Tories' bid to muzzle independent regulator

The Electoral Commission has urged ministers to axe new legislation which lets governments influence its “operational functions and decision-making”

Daily Mirror

UK elections watchdog warns bill threatens its independence

Electoral Commission calls on government to drop plans that give ministers greater say in its work

The Guardian - UK

Elections watchdog tells government to drop power-grab with ‘no precedent’ in western democracies

Electoral Commission warns independence at risk as ministers ‘influence operational functions and decision-making’

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This year’s federal election tipped to be the most expensive yet

The Australian Electoral Commission says the federal election will be one of the nation's most unusual and costly, costing up to half a billion dollars.

The Guardian - UK

Met considering whether to investigate PM over Downing Street flat refurb

Exclusive: Solicitors for Labour have written to Cressida Dick suggesting force is ‘duty-bound’ to launch inquiry

The Guardian - UK

As long as party donations can be obscured, British politics will not be clean

The UK is defenceless to stop a tide of questionable funding – that’s why I’m calling for ‘Pandora amendments’ to the elections bill, says Labour MP Liam Byrne

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