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The SNP has renewed its appeal to the Westminster government to give the Scottish Parliament full responsibility for elections in Scotland. MSPs are due to debate a committee report into how the chaos of the 2007 elections can be avoided. The local government committee at Holyrood has been inquiring into what went wrong on election day that year. A total of 184,000 parliamentary and council ballot papers were rejected because they were wrongly filled in. The committee said ballot papers needed to be... [read full story]
