Footnotes
1 Independent review of Scottish Parliamentary and local government elections 3 May 2007 carried out by Ron Gould CM and published 23 October 2007 ("Gould Report")
2 See A Quiet Revolution: STV and the Scottish Council Elections of 2007 by David Denver and Hugh Bochel(a), Scottish Affairs, No. 61, Autumn 2007
3 Sorting the Ballot, Scotland Office, December 2007
4 Gould Report, page 111
5 Gould Report, pages 12-13
6 Gould Report, page 24
7 Gould Report, page 112
8 Gould Report, pages 23-24
9 Gould Report, page 15
10 Gould Report, page 24
11 Gould Report, page 111
12Gould Report, page 16
13 Gould Report, page 18
14 Arbuthnott Commission Report: putting citizens first: Boundaries, voting and representation in Scotland, 2006
15 Gould Report, pages 49-54
16 Gould Report, page 115
17 The Report of the Commission on Local Government and the Scottish Parliament, 1999
18 The Report of the Renewing Local Democracy Working Group, 2000
19 Arbuthnott Commission Report: putting citizens first: Boundaries, voting and representation in Scotland, 2006
20 http://www.cosla.gov.uk/attachments/leaders/2007/l071116item11.pdf
21 http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-08/sor0110-02.htm#Col4957
22 Gould Report, page 56
23 Scottish Local Elections 2007 - Bochel & Denver (2007)
24 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/201093/0053732.pdf
25 http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/files/dms/Appendix-C-Public-Awareness-Campaign-Evaluation-Report_ 27609-20323__E__N__S__W__.pdf
26 Scottish Elections 2007: The Independent review of the Scottish Parliamentary and local government elections
27 http://www.cosla.gov.uk/attachments/leaders/2007/l070831item09.pdf
28 Arbuthnott Commission Report: putting citizens first: Boundaries, voting and representation in Scotland, 2006
29 The Report of the Commission on Local Government and the Scottish Parliament, 1999
30 The Report of the Renewing Local Democracy Working Group, 2000
31 Arbuthnott Commission Report 2006
32 The Electoral Commission, Scottish Elections 2003, The Official Report on the Scottish Parliament and local government elections 1 May 2003.
33 The Report of the Commission on Local Government and the Scottish Parliament, 1999; Gould Report, page 115