Welsh polling station. A printing error has been blamed on a North Wales regional candidate being omitted from tens of thousands of ballot papers across Gwynedd and Anglesey. The relevant returning officers have confirmed that the advice of the Electoral Commission was sought as a result of the error which saw Michelle Brown’s name failing to appear on the ballot papers of voters living in the Ynys Môn and Arfon constituencies. Ms Brown, who is based in Staffordshire, was elected as one of the four members representing the North Wales electoral region as a UKIP AM in 2016. She hit the headlines in 2017 after she was accused of making a racist comment about a then senior Labour politician and was banned from the Senedd for a week.