This section is intended to help you make decisions about some of the key aspects of delivering the verification and the counting of the votes, such as managing the collation of the result, as well as developing plans for managing attendance and observation.
It provides guidance to support the key decisions you need to make, and highlights recommended approaches to assist you in understanding and discharging your duties to ensure that there is transparency in the process and enabling you to deliver an accurate result in which voters, candidates and political parties have confidence.
For the purpose of combined county authority mayoral elections, references in this guidance to combined authorities should, unless specifically indicated otherwise, be read as references to combined county authorities.