Some members of the UK's ruling Conservative Party may have been issued more than one postal ballot paper to cast their vote to elect a new party leader to replace Theresa May as British Prime Minister, according to a media report on Saturday.
Ballot papers have been dispatched to around 166,000 Conservative Party members around the UK to choose between Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson as the new Tory leader, who will take charge at 10 Downing Street.
The process of dispatch is to be completed by Monday and the vote closes at 5pm on July 22. The results will be announced the following day.
According to the BBC, some members have already received two ballot papers.
In some cases, because members live and work in different constituencies and may have joined local Conservative Associations in both areas. People who have changed their name, after marriage for example, may also have been affected.
"The ballot holds clear instructions that members voting more than once will be expelled," the Conservative Party said in a statement.