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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