What is happening with postal votes?

The big issue seems to concern people who applied for a postal vote before the 19 June deadline but after 7 June.

It appears that 7 June was a significant administrative deadline, although this was never publicised.

Postal votes granted to people who applied up to 7 June have now been sent out all across Scotland.

But in some council areas, postal votes granted after that date are only just being sent out.

Voters who were planning to go away on holiday this weekend had no reason to believe that applying on 9 June rather than 7 June would have made any meaningful difference to the chance of their postal voting pack arriving on time.

Some councils have identified the length of time it has taken to print postal voting packs as an issue.

This means they have been sent out later than some might have hoped for.

Royal Mail has strenuously denied that it is responsible for the problems.

However, given the timescales, any example of a postal voting pack taking longer than normal to deliver could well have added to a voter’s concerns.