The delays and registration errors led to many having to go to City of York Council’s West Offices headquarters to resolve issues days before the general election, councillors heard.
Labour’s Cllr Anna Baxter said some postal votes arrived after the deadline to return them or even after the election itself.
Liberal Democrat Cllr Andrew Hollyer said voter ID rules had hit the homeless, young people, the disabled and those from ethnic minority and LGBT backgrounds hardest.
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A riverside path in York has closed due to "structural damage".
TRIBUTES are being paid to war veteran Joseph Thomas who has died aged 99 and will have a memorial funeral service at York Minster tomorrow (Wednesday, January 22).
