The bill also makes it easier to designate venues such as malls and supermarkets to be voting places. These are familiar places used daily by the public and so will help make voting more accessible for voters. Currently, venues cannot be used as polling places if they are a licensed premise. This applies even if no alcohol is consumed in the part of the venue being used as a voting place. Other venues—for example, shopping malls—may be used for advance voting but are not able to be used as voting places on election day because all voting places need to have sufficient room for the preliminary counting of votes to be conducted on site. This bill removes the prohibition on designating a licensed premise, such as a supermarket, as a voting place, and it also allows the Electoral Commission to designate a different place for the preliminary count of the votes cast in a polling place if this is necessary to enable votes to be counted in a more appropriate space.