Meetings
NDM7881 Debate: Voter Inclusion
This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.
Note: Meeting Agenda can change at short notice. Particularly where future meeting dates are indicated more than a week in advance. Please check before planning to attend a Committee Meeting that the item you are interested in has not been moved.
Meeting: 09/11/2021 - Plenary (Item 7)
Debate: Voter Inclusion
NDM7818 - Lesley Griffiths
(Wrexham)
To propose that the
Senedd:
1. Welcomes the Welsh
Government’s efforts to modernise electoral administration in Wales to ensure
that people can vote and their votes are counted.
2. Notes the Welsh
Government’s principles for Electoral Reform as set out in the Counsel General
and Minister for the Constitution’s written statement on 15 July 2021.
3. Regrets the
proposals by the UK Government to introduce voter ID and restrict access to
postal and proxy voting, which will suppress voting and deny people in Wales
their fundamental democratic rights.
Written
Statement: Framework for electoral reform – 15 July 2021
The following
amendment has been tabled:
Amendment 1 - Darren Millar
(Clwyd West)
Delete all and
replace with:
To propose that the
Senedd:
1. Believes that
elections in Wales should be free and fair.
2. Welcomes the UK
Government’s election Bill and its provisions to strengthen the integrity of
elections.
3. Notes that the
introduction of voter ID has been backed by the Electoral Commission and that
the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Office for
Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has stated that its absence is a
security risk.
4. Calls on the
Welsh Government to work with the UK Government to improve the integrity of all
elections held in Wales.
Minutes:
The item started at 17.31
Voting
on the motion and amendments under this item was deferred until Voting Time.
NDM7818
- Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)
To propose that the Senedd:
1. Welcomes the Welsh Government’s efforts to
modernise electoral administration in Wales to ensure that people can vote and
their votes are counted.
2. Notes the Welsh Government’s principles for
Electoral Reform as set out in the Counsel General and Minister for the
Constitution’s written statement on 15 July 2021.
3. Regrets the proposals by the UK Government to
introduce voter ID and restrict access to postal and proxy voting, which will
suppress voting and deny people in Wales their fundamental democratic
rights.
Written Statement: Framework for electoral reform – 15 July 2021
The following amendments were
tabled:
Amendment
1 - Darren Millar (Clwyd West)
Delete
all and replace with:
To
propose that the Senedd:
1.
Believes that elections in Wales should be free and fair.
2.
Welcomes the UK Government’s election Bill and its provisions to strengthen the
integrity of elections.
3.
Notes that the introduction of voter ID has been backed by the Electoral
Commission and that the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has stated that its absence
is a security risk.
4.
Calls on the Welsh Government to work with the UK Government to improve the
integrity of all elections held in Wales.
A vote
was taken on amendment 1:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
15 |
0 |
39 |
54 |
Amendment 1 was not agreed.
A vote was taken on the motion:
NDM7818
- Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)
To propose that the Senedd:
1. Welcomes the Welsh Government’s efforts to modernise
electoral administration in Wales to ensure that people can vote and their
votes are counted.
2. Notes the Welsh Government’s principles for
Electoral Reform as set out in the Counsel General and Minister for the
Constitution’s written statement on 15 July 2021.
3. Regrets the proposals by the UK Government to
introduce voter ID and restrict access to postal and proxy voting, which will
suppress voting and deny people in Wales their fundamental democratic
rights.
Written Statement: Framework for electoral reform – 15 July 2021
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
40 |
0 |
14 |
54 |
The motion was agreed.