I am now in dispute with Stroud because they say I have not returned the Overseas Voter form, which which they say they sent on the 6th February and which I have not received.
I received another e mail from them on the same day to which I responded.
I am on the electoral roll as an overseas voter and they have the details of my proxy, but no go, I have not returned this form signed, so no vote.
Different people from different constituencies seem to have different experiences in registering to vote from overseas. I just filled in the online form and got an email with an attached letter saying my application was approved within 24 hours. Some places are also really not geared up for sending mail abroad. The OH had three separate forms not arrive. It turns out the sender did not put the country on the address and sent it by UK second class.
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A Supervisor at Stroud has contacted the Electoral Commission and it does appear that because I have not completed the Overseas Elector Registration form, which I never received I have no vote and have been removed from the Register.
Stroud have previously removed me from the Register without my permission and when a proxy attended in person to cast my vote, Stroud had not put P by my name, indicating that I had a proxy vote.
If she wasnāt a determined Irish woman and insisted that they ring the Council Offices, I would have been denied a vote.
They call Britain a democracy, but that is very hard to swallow today.
Just had confirmation that they are sending my postal vote papers to my actual address in France rather than my old constituency address.
I would not normally be too worried because the labour candidate would normally win easily but since boundary changes Labour is neck and neck with Reform.
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Labour is almost certain to gain Stroud, as it swings between Tory and Labour.
There have been boundary changes too, a large housing estate outside Gloucester is now included in Stroud, changing its character drastically.
Does anyone know of a sight or organisation that monitors voters losing their right to vote because of administrative errors?
Does Stroud not do all this online now? For such a green leaning constituency still to use paper seems odd.
Iām not sure how many of us will lose our votes this time, despite all our best efforts. My ballot paper, presumably sent out from the same constituency and at the same time, is no where to be seen. My husband completed and took his vote to La Poste yesterday. Iām gutted and feel disenfranchised 
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It was online.
They say they sent me two e mails on the 6th February whilst I only received one.
It is totally ridiculous that I apply to be registered, have the details of my proxy accepted and then get my name removed from the register because if I did not return the Overseas Voter Form and they take that to mean that I do not want to vote.
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Susannah, we have both been disenfranchised.
I spoke to the Lib Dems HQ yesterday to tell them that they had lost a vote due to an administrative error by Stroud District Council.
I see that you too intended to vote Lib Dem. Please contact their HQ in London and tell them they have lost a vote and why.
I suggested to them that they compile a register of any voters denied their vote due to late arrival or papers totally missing.
I shall also be contacting Lib Dems in France with my story and hope you will do the same.
I do not trust the Electoral Commission, I want this on the front page of national newspapers and on the tv.
Does anyone have contacts in journalism in UK .
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Try the ombudsman?
https://www.lgo.org.uk/make-a-complaint/what-we-can-and-cannot-look-at
We are writing to the Chief Executive of Stroud District Council to see if they can provide confirmation that this e mail was actually sent.
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Nor mine! 
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We really need to make this known widely in GB.
It has just come to minf that, of course, we know a journalist with connections in UK.
Step up Cat, what can you do to point us in the direction of a political journalist or someone you know who might be interested on tv or radio.
Perhaps collate all our information and write the article itself.
This is a disgusting scandal.
If, as is being said Starmer will have the largest majority ever seen, my chance of voting again is fading into a future when I could not be here .
My parting words to the lady at Stroud District was that I hoped my chemotherapy worked better than they did.
The big white, very official looking envelope, containing my postal vote, is now sitting in the yellow post box outside my local post office. It has 14 days to get to where itās going, hopefully to arrive before the 4th July!
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Direct to the Guardian here
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Here goes for one tactical vote against Priti Patel. I suspect this is the first time in generations that a member of my family has probably ever voted Labour! Iāll no doubt be disinherited (again!).
The rather complicated A & B postal voting instructions donāt seem to quite work for pre paid international envelopes (there is no āwindowā in these envelopes) but the ballot paper and postal voting statement are safely in the right envelopes.Now off to the Bureau de posteā¦
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The window is in the brown envelope in which you place your voting paper with the number facing out of the window. And then it and another form you fill in all goes in the one youāve just pictured.
I do hope you have done it right. 
Yes, despite what the instructions said, my white envelope didnāt have a window either. The domestic ones do, however, as I saw the news presenter Cathy Newman posted something to Twitter earlier today.
Good. Exactly what Iāve doneā¦but as @Gareth also notes, thatās not what the (presumably UK domestic) instructions say. I guess they havenāt produced any for us overseas voters (or if they have, Braintree District - eg in my case -didnāt think to include them!)
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All very strange, I have just looked at Franās, obviously unopened, white envelope and that definitely has a window in it. Exactly as mine did.