Zack Polanski, a Green Party figure selected to contest a parliamentary seat previously held by Keir Starmer, says his voter registration record shows he was listed under two different names due to an error by his local council. In the reporting, he is said to have been registered previously as “David Paulden,” and later, in 2020 and 2021, to have appeared on the register under both names.
The Daily Mail reports that Polanski attributes the discrepancy to a “council cock-up.” The coverage does not dispute the existence of the differing names on the electoral register, but it does not provide additional evidence or detail beyond the claim of an administrative mistake.
The accounts therefore focus on the same central point: the candidate’s explanation for why two names appear across different years on the voter register.
