The Home Office elections website contains a good deal of useful information about elections and is in the process of being restructured to make it more easy to navigate around it. The website contains information useful to both the public and to electoral administrators and there are links to other related websites such as the Electoral Commission. Electoral administrators may find it helpful to consult the website before making enquiries elsewhere, or to direct others to the site for their information. One of the documents on the Home Office elections website is a simple guide to the general election and electoral practice which can be used to answer questions which may arise during the election campaign. It is not an exhaustively detailed document, but gives information which I hope will be useful.
Electoral administrators can direct enquirers to the document for their information.
However, if there are any electoral administrators or others who cannot access the website or download the document, limited copies will be available. Both of these should be available from local crime prevention officers. A number of electoral administrators have contacted us to point out that their e-mail addresses which were supplied for the purpose of swift communication have been published on our website without their permission. I am sorry if this has caused any problems for administrators. When we asked for these addresses it was not with the intention of publishing them more widely.