Two by elections are taking place on Thursday, one in Baillieston and one in Partick East/ Kelvindale. Around 300 recently registered voters in the two by elections have been given the wrong information about where they should go to vote.
READ MORE: They have been directed to primary schools that will be used in May for the Scottish Parliament elections but which are not being used this week. Glasgow City Council said around 800 polling card letters were sent to voters who registered to vote in person between February 11th and March 2nd. Of that number around 300 contained the wrong information about where to vote.
Election could see supermarket style queues at polling stations unless more vote by post Queues outside polling stations like outside supermarkets could be necessary at the Holyrood election in May unless there is a big increase in postal voting. In Glasgow, it is estimated that postal votes will need to treble to avoid the need for queues forming outside stations. The election in May is planned to go ahead but there will be hygiene measures and physical distancing is likely to be in place. Glasgow’s returning Officer, Annemarie O’Donnell said it would be similar to going to a supermarket.
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image captionTony Curtis was elected to Glasgow City Council in 2017
A Glasgow councillor has lost his seat after failing to attend council meetings for six months.
A by-election will now be held to choose a replacement for Tony Curtis in the Partick East/Kelvindale ward.
He was elected as a Conservative councillor in 2017 but quit the party last July amid disagreements over support for the fitness industry.
He told the Daily Record he believed the party should have pressed for earlier reopening after lockdown.
The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 states that a member of a local authority loses office if they do not attend a meeting at least once in any six-month period.
A councillor has been ‘sacked’ for failing to turn up at meetings. Tony Curtis, Independent councillor for Partick East/Kelvindale, breached the rules on the number of meetings that councillors must attend to keep their position. It was discovered that the former Conservative councillor had not been at a council meeting for more than six months. The rules for councillors state they must attend at least once in a six-month period or they lose their position. Despite only having to log in from home to any one of six meetings over the period, as committees were held via video, the former councillor failed to attend on each occassion.