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Peterborough City Council apologises for hour-long that saw people unable to vote
Peterborough s lowest voter turn-out was in a ward where there was only one polling booth for over 5,000 voters
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As the dust settles after the recent local elections, Hampton Vale has retains its title as the Peterborough ward with the lowest voter-turnout.
At the election on May 6 the ward saw just 22 per cent of the population voting, a four per cent drop on the previous election.
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This comes after complaints from many residents about the inadequacies of the voting process.
The ward was served by a single mobile polling station with only one booth. The one in one out policy slowed down the process considerably and meant that large queues formed towards the end of the day and some were even left queuing past 11pm, when voting was scheduled to end at 10pm.
This is likely to have contributed to why the verification of the votes was delayed and the city’s count was pushed back to 1pm on Friday (May 7).
Given the poor weather and the fact that some people were being asked to wait for over an hour, it is believed that a number of people who had an intention to vote, changed their mind and left the queue.
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