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Electoral Administration Bill

I did not comment before because I wanted to hear what the noble Baroness had to say. My noble friend Lord Norton has perhaps taken into account the postal vote pilot that we want to see. If so, the amendment fits quite neatly with that. If we take that into account, it would not be necessary for everybody to sign up the first time; it would be necessary when everybody wanted a postal vote to have their identifiers in place. Under those circumstances, and hearing what the noble Baroness has said—which is in a sense a softening of hard lines—the amendment is very appropriate.