Posters showing incorrect voting instructions removed from polling station

VOTERS were met with posters at a polling station in Glasgow telling them incorrectly how to cast their ballots this morning.

People who attended the polling station at Notre Dame Primary School in the west of the city were met with posters asking them to number candidates in order of preference.

The correct process for filling in a ballot for the General Election is by picking just one candidate with a cross using the First Past The Post voting system.

The numbering of candidates in preference is known as the Single Transferable Vote and is the voting method used in local elections in Scotland.

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Glasgow City Council have said the error only affected the “first few voters” of the day as the mistaken posters were “spotted very soon” after the doors had opened.

They also confirmed that no one's ballots using the incorrect system have been spoiled and that the first preference will be taken as their voting intention.

A Glasgow City Council spokesperson said: “The error was spotted very soon after the polling station opened and after the first few voters.

“It was replaced with the correct information.

“No one has been disenfranchised as the first preference will be taken from the ballot paper.”

The Electoral Management Board (EMB) for Scotland has said any ballots submitted would be valid.

Chris Highcock, secretary to the EMB, said: “On a paper marked with numbers the clear preference would be for the candidate numbered 1.”