Diolch, Llywydd, and I move amendment 8 in my name. This amendment simply leaves out section 6 in order to prevent multiple-day voting. As I said yesterday, we recognise the need for voting to take place on a single day and not be spread out over multiple days. An election held over multiple days raises security concerns over the integrity of the election. As I said, where will ballot boxes be stored and how will their security be protected and guaranteed? Whilst the Minister stated yesterday that the Welsh Government is working with returning officers to seek to address this, and it's a criminal offence to interfere with ballot boxes and therefore the democratic will of the people, multiple-day voting would inevitably create a higher risk of this, necessitating multiple-agency involvement and increased costs.

What will the impact be on those community venues that have to close to become a polling station, usually just for a day? This also runs the risks of some voters being unduly influenced by how others have voted, and sets an unfavourable precedent we cannot support. In fact, I believe that we've not had multiple voting anywhere, certainly in the UK, since the end of the first world war. It was ended for sound democratic reasons, and we would return it, I believe, at high risk.

As I said yesterday, I hope the Welsh Government will be reading with interest the delivery plan published by the UK Government Cabinet Office last week, which does set out—. Excuse me. Modern technology—everything just jumped. How elections can be safely run on 6 May 2021 in England and Wales. Given that polling stations in Wales will already be operating an election on 6 May and 6 May only, to elect police and crime commissioners, it would be bizarre to extend voting by multiple days for another franchise. The Senedd elections must take place on a single day, and in our view that single day should remain Thursday 6 May. Diolch.