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What does DRO stand for?

Deputy Returning Officer (Canadian elections)


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Samples in periodicals archive:
Jonathan Rew, deputy returning officer at Gateshead Council, said: "Although the vast majority of postal voters completed their papers without difficulty, we will see if we can make our instructions even clearer next year.
Moreover, the Tower Hamlets deputy returning officer, Pat Barker, has said that nearly 3,000 applications for postal votes came in by hand less than four hours before the deadline - a number of them delivered by council members.
The Cynon Valley count took place at the Michael Fobell Sports Centre, Ynys, Aberdare, and the deputy returning officer Paul Lucas made the declaration at 1.
In 1997, as a Deputy Returning Officer for Fermanagh, Mid-Ulster and South Tyrone, he said there was "widespread abuse" of postal voting in Northern Ireland.
Ayr deputy returning officer William Pollock said: "They have jumped the gun by a few days.
Each polling station is staffed by a deputy returning officer and a polling clerk.
Russ Cochrane, the council's deputy returning officer, said: "By making it easier and more convenient for people to vote, we hope to increase turnout.
A council spokesman said: ``Regulations make it clear that free copies of electoral rolls for appropriate electoral divisions can only be issued when a nomination for candidature has been validated by the returning officer or a deputy returning officer.

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