Method of voting 7 Method of voting by convicted persons at local government elections (1) Schedule 4 of the Representation of the People Act 2000 (absent voting) is amended as 15 follows. (2) In paragraph 2 (manner of voting), after sub-paragraph (6) insert— “(6ZA) In relation to a local government election in Scotland, nothing in the preceding provisions of this paragraph applies to a person to whom section 3(1A) of the 1983 Act (exception to disenfranchisement for offenders sentenced to term not 20 exceeding 12 months) applies; and such a person may...