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muriel_volestrangler

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6. Not as far as I know. I don't think the parties are allowed to keep your details

Reply to Soph0571 (Reply #5)

Thu May 2, 2019, 05:32 PM

May 2019

for use outside the election, but
"Every candidate standing in an election is entitled to send one
communication via Royal Mail, with no charge to them for postage, to
every eligible elector on the relevant electoral register(s) or to every
domestic address within the relevant electoral area. This can be in
the form of addressed or unaddressed mail to each household."

https://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/Candidate-Mail-elections-April-2017-v2.pdf

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This was on my doorstep when I came home tonight.. [View all] Soph0571 May 2019 OP

How does voter registration work there? PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #1

I am on the voter register Soph0571 May 2019 #2

The parties that are standing get to send a leaflet to everyone muriel_volestrangler May 2019 #4

So GDPR does not apply? Soph0571 May 2019 #5

Not as far as I know. I don't think the parties are allowed to keep your details muriel_volestrangler May 2019 #6

That's the price of being a voter - election leaflets from tossers muriel_volestrangler May 2019 #3

Send it back to them without a stamp, so they'll have to pay the postage! LeftishBrit May 2019 #7

That's my usual tactic whenever the Tories waste their paper on me. Denzil_DC May 2019 #8

Most political parties have been preoocupied with local elections T_i_B May 2019 #9