Member

If noble Lords will bear with me, I want to quickly mention two aspects that are not included in this legislation, but that I would like to see at some stage. First, I would like to see an exclusion zone around polling stations, because voters and electors are intimidated going into polling stations in Northern Ireland. Secondly, we need to address the issue of polling agents who sit in the polling booth on behalf of parties and take information out to their supporters, who then go rounding up people who have not voted. That is a fact that we have reported on a regular basis, but nothing is done about it. Until something is done in legislation, we will not have progress.