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Voting issues: Wrong advice and woman loses 'last vote'
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While most have cast their votes without issue, the BBC has heard from some impacted by polling headaches.

A 98-year-old woman says she has lost what may be her last chance to vote after being turned away from a polling station.

Meanwhile Glasgow City Council has had to reassure voters their ballots will still be counted after incorrect advice was spotted at a polling station. An emergency unit at Edinburgh City Chambers was set up by the council last weekend in response to concern over postal votes not arriving in time - it closed at 17:00.After phoning the council for advice her grandson was told to apply for an emergency proxy vote.BBC Scotland News understands that as Ms Kelsey was already registered for a postal vote, she could not also then have a proxy vote given to her.

"Our emergency postal votes facility has been in place since last Friday morning and has provided replacement packs to hundreds of residents.”Glasgow City Council told BBC News that a "few" voters in the Glasgow West constituency had seen incorrect advice at the Notre Dame primary polling station, which was taken down quickly.The council said that ballots would still be counted and that whoever has a "1" next to their name on the ballot paper will receive the vote.

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