UK ministers also object to SNP proposals to extend voting in the referendum to 16- and 17-year-olds.

With only two votes cast so far for a new destination (thank you HogoFogo and JohnHunyadi) we've decided to extend voting until noon on Monday Sepetmber 4.

In 2000, the High Court ruled that this breached the Constitution, and the government drafted a bill extending postal voting to prisoners on remand or serving sentences of less than six months.

Both men have accused the Kenya Electoral Commission of rigging the election against them after officials botched the delivery of ballots to many constituencies and had to extend voting.

Arnprior, Ontario provided Internet and telephone voting and was forced to extend voting by a further 24 hours due to problems with people logging in to the Intelivote system.

Although the draft Constitution extends qualified-majority voting, it certainly does not go far enough.

There is broad agreement on extending qualified-majority voting and codecision powers to a range of different policy matters in the domain of both the European Council and the European Parliament.

And as far as we are concerned that is not the right direction, all the more so since one important point will undoubtedly be to extend voting by qualified majority.

The Council presidency is in fact seeking to extend qualified-majority voting in the area of commercial policy under Article 113 to decisions on services, investments and copyright, for example.

(Applause) As for the functioning of the Council, the vital point is that of extending voting by qualified majority.