With local elections next week make sure you don’t leave it too late to post your postal vote.

If you have chosen to vote by post in the local elections on 2 May we advise you post your postal vote in the next few days using the prepaid Royal Mail envelope provided.

Use the Royal Mail envelope provided

Voting by post allows you to vote at home without visiting a polling station. Posting your vote in a red Royal Mail postbox means you will not need to fill out a postal vote declaration form.

Handing in your postal vote

If you aren’t able to post your postal vote in time you have 2 options, you can:

1. Hand it to reception staff at the Civic Offices in Epping
2. Hand it in at your polling station on election day

For both, you will be required to complete a postal vote declaration form. The form asks for your name and address, how many postal votes you are handing in, and why you are handing in those postal votes. Your vote will be rejected if you do not complete this form.

From this election voters can hand in their own postal vote, and the postal votes of up to 5 other people, but only if they complete a postal vote declaration form.

Your vote needs to be with EFDC by 10pm on Thursday 2 May. If it arrives later than this, your vote won’t be counted.

Post it now