Voting form when you're living in the family home

[energybill]

Hello! Recently divorced here and I'm living in the family home with kids. XH lives fairly close by in short term rentals so wants to use this address for his letters etc as he doesn't have a permanent address at the moment. I have no problem with this. He's paying the mortgage after all as terms of the consent order.

I applied for the council tax single person discount as I was the only adult in the house and I got it.

XH wants to continue to be on the voters list at our address. I'm a bit worried as I've applied for the single person discount and the voters list might sound like XH still lives here and I'm committing fraud! Or am I overthinking this? I've been doing a lot of googling and can't find an answer to this. I've contacted the council and they only respond within ten working days and I need the answer now as I need to respond to the voting form by tomorrow. I'm out all day tomorrow as well so I need this info today 😞Anyone been in this situ?

You need to put on the form who actually lives there. My STBX wanted to remain on the roll over a year after he moved out but I pointed out the legal position. There are penalities which apply and are more onerous if you deliberately provide false information:
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/delivering-annual-canvass-england/processing-canvass-responses/what-are-penalties-failing-respond-a-canvass-communication-or-providing-false-information

Thank you! I removed his name from the list and he's registered from elsewhere. Phew.