Why it’s time for automatic voter registration
‘So public money can be spent suppressing the vote, but public money cannot be saved on the process for registering voters by doing it automatically’
‘So public money can be spent suppressing the vote, but public money cannot be saved on the process for registering voters by doing it automatically’
52% of all voters under 40 remain unaware of the new requirements.
Just 10,000 people, (0.5%) of the two million people in the UK who lack the correct forms of ID have applied for a government-issued voter ID since the scheme opened.
17% of eligible voters in the UK are not correctly registered to vote. This represents as many as 9.4 million people.
Cabinet Office research has found that 42 percent of those with no photo ID said they were unlikely to apply.
‘Individual electoral registration was introduced in 2014. It cleaned up the rolls to a degree, but also cleaned them out of millions who should have been there.’
327 MPs voted in favour of introducing photo ID at elections, including 85 Tories who voted against the need for Covid passes to gain entry into nightclubs and big events.
Charities are urging people to raise awareness of the upcoming vote
Three-quarters of 16-17 year olds aren’t on the electoral register.
We handed out 15,000 flyers and could have done more with more resources.