The first part briefly considers the potential for elections to spread COVID-19. The second part examines the specific experience of Scotland, Wales and England which all ran elections in May 2021. In the English case, these were postponed for a period of time out of step with emerging international practice. With scheduled Scottish and Welsh parliament elections also taking place, all of GB was at the polls in May 2021, but in the case of most of these contests, with no prior experience of having run elections under COVID-19. The third section shift the focus to the comparative level and considers the issues being implemented as election officials planned for new elections in 2020-21 and beyond. What mitigations and changes were required to the electoral process for candidates, voters and administrators? To what extent have they improved accessibility, or do they highlight difficulties in electoral integrity? The concluding section suggests that COVID-19 highlights the need to rethink how elections are delivered.