Overview of the Structure Part 6: Conduct of elections etc
24.This Part makes provision on several topics relevant to the conduct of elections.
25.In relation to electoral expenses it makes amendments:
	to remedy a defect which currently restricts the activities upon which third party expenditure unauthorised by an election agent can be spent;
	to allow the Electoral Commission greater flexibility in prescribing the information to be included on candidates’ election expenses returns; and
	to set out in fuller detail what items qualify as candidates’ election expenses.
26.It introduces a system for the attendance of the Electoral Commission and other authorised observers at elections.
27.It adds to the circumstances in which a voter is permitted to cast a tendered vote at a polling station.
28.It creates a new offence of applying for a postal or proxy vote with the intention, in effect, of stealing another person’s vote. This can be by a person personating another elector or by wrongfully redirecting another elector’s postal vote.
29.It introduces new provisions governing the custody, inspection and supply of the marked registers after an election which have been used at polling stations and provides for the production of marked lists of returned postal and postal proxy votes.
30.It introduces a power for returning officers to correct errors made by themselves or others involved in the conduct of the election.