Postal ballot packs sent to anonymously registered electors must be sent in an envelope or covering that does not disclose that the elector is registered anonymously.1
You should send postal ballot packs to anonymously registered electors in a plain outgoing envelope. The postal voting statement must also omit the elector’s name.2
As part of your preparations for the issue of postal votes, you should agree with your printers a process that will enable you to do this.
The ERO’s records of granted applications will include the address to which the anonymous elector has requested that their postal vote should be sent.
2. Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001 regulation 66, Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001 reg 66. The latest version of the postal voting statement at UK Parliamentary elections can be found in The Representation of the People (England and Wales) (Description of Electoral Registers and Amendment) Regulations 2013 and, in Wales, should be read alongside The Parliamentary Elections (Welsh Forms) (Amendment) Order 2015↩ Back to content at footnote 2