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Time for modernising elections in Wales
The Welsh Government has consulted on modernising the way local elections in Wales are conducted and today we publish our views on these proposals. Continue reading
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Did the Electoral Commission really suggest banning people from voting?
Some recent media reports have suggested the Electoral Commission was calling for ‘social media trolls’ to be banned from voting in our response to the current Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL) inquiry into intimidation of Parliamentary candidates . Continue reading
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Change needed on voter registration before next general election
June’s general election saw the largest ever electorate for a UK-wide poll with an estimated 46.8 million people registered to vote. The public’s willingness to engage in democracy is both clear and encouraging, but the system which supports voter registration … Continue reading
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Regulating election campaign spending
By Sir John Holmes, Chair, UK Electoral Commission The last weeks have seen significant coverage of the issue of the regulation of political campaigning, much of it focusing on two sets of linked, but very different investigations. The Electoral Commission … Continue reading
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Living overseas? Don’t miss out on having your say in the UK general election
Wherever you are in the world, don’t miss out on voting in the UK general election… Continue reading
The Commission and the 2017 UK General Election
The announcement of the General Election on 8 June came before the dust had settled finally on some aspects of the regulation of the 2015 campaign. That is the nature of democratic politics. In any case, the Electoral Commission had … Continue reading
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Electoral fraud: high stakes highlighted in new report
2016 saw an unprecedented number of polls with important elections held across the whole of the UK in May, a referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU in June, and numerous parliamentary by-elections. We have recently published data on … Continue reading
