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Electoral Administration Bill

My Lords, I find this a most extraordinary provision. If the elections are anything to go by, photographs are splattered over every bit of literature, posters and all other aspects of election material. By the time you get to the polling station, I am not sure what advantage it is to have photographs on ballot papers. After all, the only two things on a ballot paper that need to be known are the name of the candidate and the party they are standing for. Other than those, there is nothing else to do with their manifesto, or with them personally. To have a reasonable photograph it must be reasonably sized, which means the ballot papers by definition have to be bigger, or else you have a tiny photograph that does not mean anything at all. At the last election we had logos of parliamentary parties on the ballot papers. They did not seem to mean a lot, and were frightfully tiny. I cannot see any benefit to be derived from this measure. If the Minister moves it, I am bound to say I disagree with it so I will not support it.