The European Parliament election ballot sheet has been resized and repositioned because there was not enough time to import more security paper.

The new voting documents, without Labour candidate Cyrus Engerer’s name, started being printed last night and will be ready after a process expected to take some 17 hours.

Designers managed to play around with the size and shape to fit in five ballots in every sheet of security paper rather than three. Twenty-five boxes of security paper were used to print the first batch of 420,000 voting documents and there were 12 boxes left in stock.

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