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Police commissioner election ballots reprinted after Home Office blunder"
"Emergency legislation is being rushed through the Commons this week to correct a Home Office blunder over next month's police and crime commissioner elections that could cost up to £350,000.
The unexpected bill is to cover the cost of printing a second set of ballot papers in Wales where an official oversight led to legislation originally being passed that only authorised the printing of an English version of the ballot paper.
Returning officers in Wales are under a duty to ensure that the Welsh language is given equal status to English. They have put in place contingency plans to print bilingual ballot papers in Welsh and English for the first poll to elect police commissioners on 15 November.
But unless peers and MPs pass emergency secondary legislation by this Wednesday the bilingual ballot papers will have to be scrapped. The Home Office, which is to foot the bill, has confirmed that the cost will be up to £350,000."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/29/police-commissioner-election-ballots-blunder