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Thursday night election counts 'could lead to officials being charged with corporate manslaughter' | Andrew Sparrow

published Mon, Nov 09 2009 11:31 GMT
New report spells more trouble for those trying to save the traditional British general election nightAfter the Sunday Times published a story in September suggesting that the traditional general election night was under threat because many constituencies were planning to count on the Friday, ConservativeHome's Jonathan Isaby launched a campaign to save Thursday night counting. Judging by a document that I've just read, he could be fighting a losing battle.It's from the Association of Electoral Administrators and it's an "issues paper" called Counting Arrangements for the General Election (pdf). It was published in October by John Turner, the AEA chief executive, but as far as I can tell it has not yet had any publicity. Turner says that he's not ...

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