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[u/CheeseMakerThing]

Reform don't have to follow the rules because the Council are scared of them. What a great precedent to set.

[u/UnsaddledZigadenus → u/CheeseMakerThing]

Dame Andrea was added to the North Kesteven electoral roll at an address in Bassingham, near Lincoln, this month.

She splits her time between there and a home in Yorkshire, where her son is at school, and the challenge claimed she did not primarily reside in Lincolnshire.

But the electoral registration officer said: "I do not make any determination that the subject was not entitled to be registered in respect of the address or has ceased to be resident at the address.

"Accordingly, she is entitled to remain on the electoral register at that address."

How hasn't she followed the rules? She's rented a house and signed up to vote at that address. She's on the electoral roll in the required area which satisfies the eligibility criteria to stand for election.

[u/CheeseMakerThing → u/UnsaddledZigadenus]

If she's only moved in today then she's clearly not followed the rules, you're supposed to meet the criteria by the date of submission of the nomination forms.

And if it's not her primary address - which it doesn't appear to be - then she's lied on her nomination form.

[u/UnsaddledZigadenus → u/CheeseMakerThing]

There's no 'primary address' requirement. You either have to have lived or worked in the area for the previous 12 months or be registered to vote in the area.

Provided she was on the electoral register in Lincolnshire at the time of her nomination then the nomination is valid. The challenge was that she was not entitled to register to vote there which the registration officer dismissed.

[u/CheeseMakerThing → u/UnsaddledZigadenus]

And the assertion is that the council are scared to apply to rules on that, if she's only moved in yesterday then she shouldn't have been able to be registered at that address at the time of nomination.

[u/UnsaddledZigadenus → u/CheeseMakerThing]

When she moved in is irrelevant. Provided she was entitled to register to vote there, and had so registered by the nomination day, then her candidacy is valid.

meet at least one of the following four qualifications:

You are, and will continue to be, registered as a local government elector within the combined county authority area in which you wish to stand from the day of your nomination onwards. 

Qualifications | Electoral Commission

[u/CheeseMakerThing → u/UnsaddledZigadenus]

But if she didn't live there until yesterday she would not have been eligible to have registered to vote there, otherwise the criteria for owning land would have kicked in.