Poll cards

Postal vote poll card

If you're voting by post, and you've completed the relevant form and sent it back to us, before an election you'll receive a ballot paper(s) in the post. Each member of the household who is eligible to vote, and signed up for postal voting, should receive a poll card which informs them of the date of the election and how to vote by post.

You do not need photo ID if you're voting by post.

Look out for your poll card

You'll be sent a poll card just before an election.

Sample postal poll card

Details of a sample postal poll card are given below. 

The front of a postal polling card

Election of councillors to Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
Election of Mayor for Greater Manchester Combined Authority

  • Date of election: Thursday, 2 May 2024
  • Ward: (your ward details will be entered here)

Voting information

We will send your postal vote around Thursday, 18 April 2024 addressed to: (your address will be entered here)

Your details: (your name and address will be entered here)

Electoral register number: (your electoral register number will be entered here)

Your postal vote

  • You will receive a postal vote for this election because you asked to vote by post.
  • You will not be able to vote in a polling station.
  • If you have not received your vote by Friday, 26 April 2024 call 0300 303 0345.

If you lose your postal vote or make a mistake

  • Please phone the helpline immediately.
  • We can only issue a replacement postal vote before 5pm on Thursday, 2 May 2024.

The reverse of a postal polling card

How to vote

  1. When you receive your postal vote, read the instructions carefully.
  2. Your postal vote includes your ballot papers and a postal voting statement.
  3. Complete all of these and return them immediately.
  4. We need to receive your postal vote by 10pm on Thursday, 2 May 2024.

If you miss the post, you can hand in your postal vote and/or the postal vote of others at the council office during office hours to a person authorised to receive postal votes, or
at any polling station in the electoral area before 10pm on Thursday, 2 May 2024.

If you require this poll card in large print or another format, please call our helpline below.

If you need help to vote, you can ask someone you know or get independent help by calling our helpline.

It is an offence to:

  • Vote using a ballot paper that was not sent for your use or interfere with another voter's ballot paper
  • Vote more than once at this election, unless you are voting on your own behalf and as a proxy for another person
  • Vote as a proxy on behalf of more than 4 electors, of which no more than 2 may be on behalf of other domestic electors (a domestic elector is one who is not an overseas or service elector)
  • Vote as a proxy for someone if you know that by law they are not allowed to vote

If you would rather vote in person, or ask someone else to vote on your behalf

  • You must cancel your postal vote before 5pm on Wednesday, 17 April 2024.
  • Please note that when voting in person, you or someone who is voting on your behalf must show an accepted form of photographic identification. For more information, please call the helpline.

Whether you vote in person or by post, it is an offence for someone to try to find out who you are voting for whilst you are putting your mark on the ballot paper, or to then reveal that information.

The Returning Officer issued this card.

If undelivered, return to: Electoral Services Unit, Number One Riverside, Rochdale OL16 1XU

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