Postal vote ‘refresh’ for Corby residents
As part of important security measures all postal and proxy voters must provide a fresh signature specimen every five years.
Everyone who is required to submit a fresh signature will receive a new application form through the post and will have until Monday, March 4, 2019 to return it in the pre-paid envelope provided.
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Hide AdIf the application is not received by that date, their postal/proxy vote arrangement will be cancelled and they will have to re-apply or vote in person at a polling station.
There is also an option to tell the council that a postal/proxy vote is no longer required.
More than 8,000 people currently hold an absent vote and about 1,126 of those will be written to in order to provide a fresh signature.
Corby Council will send a reminder application form to everyone who does not reply by February 4 and cancellation notices will be sent out on March 11 to those people who have not responded at all.
This does not prevent voters from requesting a postal vote in future; they will simply need to reapply for a postal/proxy vote.