ONE voter did not receive her postal vote form until 15 minutes before the polls closed on election day last Thursday!

The courier who delivered it to Mrs Ruth Shelley, of Lezant, kept the engine of his car running and had then to reach the polling station before the 10pm deadline for the end of voting.

Mrs Shelley told the 'Post' she sent in her application letter on May 20 and was informed that it was "an allowed application." She is in the Stokeclimsland Ward.

She had heard nothing when she went away to Wales for a few days and when she returned home there was no proxy vote waiting on her doormat — with four days to go.

She enlisted the help of candidate (since elected) Neil Burden, who was helpful, and she rang around County Hall, but still nothing.

Eventually, she was told they would send it by courier but, come election day, nothing had arrived. She waited all day, having been told it eould definitely be delivered earlier in the day.

Eventually, at 9.45pm, the courier arrived, she voted and the courier then headed for the polling station at Trebullett, three minutes' later, hoping to reach there before it closed, inorder for her vote to count.

"It is absolutely appaling," Mrs Shelley told the 'Post.' "These things keep coming up about One Cornwall (the new much better under North Corn­wall District Council."