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This is running on the Carmarthenshire Council website - Due to a technical issue with our printers, some requests for postal voting applications have been lost. If you rang the Elections Office between 11am-12am on Wednesday, March 30, to request a postal vote application, it is likely that your request was one that was affected. To ensure that you will receive your application form, please contact the Elections Office on 01267 228889 to make a fresh request. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Hope the returning officer is on the case . . .

Council Chief gets £20,000 cash advance Carmarthenshire County Council’s Chief Executive received a £20,000 cash advance last year Plaid Cymru has revealed. Some local authority Chief Executives are paid additional fees and expenses for activities they undertake as a Returning Officer for elections. For local elections (county council and community councils) fees are paid to the Returning Officer by the respective councils. The number of electoral wards contested is a factor which determines the amount of fees paid. Information obtained by Carmarthenshire MP Jonathan Edwards and AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas shows that the £190,000-a-year Chief Executive was paid an additional £20,000 for election activities a minimum of 5 weeks before the election took place, in a different financial year and before the number of candidates was even known.