Change your name on your postal vote
You need to complete a new postal vote application if you are a postal voter who has both:
- changed your name in the electoral register
- changed your signature
This is because postal ballot papers are sent to postal voters with a form asking the voter to provide their signature and date of birth. This is called the postal voting statement.
We then check these against the signature and date of birth you supplied when you applied for a postal vote.
Where they match, the postal ballot paper is counted. Where the signature and/or date of birth do not match or are not provided on the postal voting statement, the postal ballot paper must, by law, be rejected.
