0 a system of voting in which people send their votes by post when they cannot be present --
1 a system of voting in which people send their votes by mail: --
No one is deprived of such a vote—every single elector in his constituency, if they wish to do so, can vote by a postal ballot.
It is in the main an elected body by the whole body of nurses and by postal ballot.
Information on spoilt postal ballot papers is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
In those circumstances, a postal ballot may be extremely difficult to implement.
This will now require the confirmation by a two-thirds majority of those voting in a postal ballot of chartered engineers on the register.
What is unreasonable about giving trade union members a right to a postal ballot before they are called out on strike?
Information on the number of postal ballot papers returned after the close of the poll is not collected centrally.
Those people can be paid the cost of using a postal ballot, should they wish.