I WAS very pleased to see some coverage of the Dunoon Report on postal voting in The National (Referendum research leads to new warning on postal vote integrity, April 3). The people who compiled it are of the highest calibre and not of any even mild political naivety, and as I was heavily involved in a several times exhaustive canvas of most of Argyll and Bute (except the Lomond addition) on the referendum campaign, the result made absolutely no sense.
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Even allowing for a later registration of the postal voting applications, it is impossible to achieve 96% take-up – impossible – and yet that is a figure which is not contested. What is as suspicious is that four other constituencies achieved about 95% (including Jim Murphy’s seat), three of which are historically strong SNP. I am perplexed at the lack of concern and I want to see the postal voting system comprehensively re-jigged before our referendum.
David McEwan Hill
Sandbank, Argyll
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