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Data published by the Electoral Commission on the 2016 EU referendum and the 2017 UK General Election show that thousands of postal votes were rejected, not received, or lost. In … Continue reading 167,000 postal votes rejected at EU referendum and 24,000 ‘lost’ in GE2017
30% of non-voters in the 2017 UK General Election did not vote due to the inconvenience of current voting methods, according to a new report by the Electoral Commission. In … Continue reading Electoral Commission: 30% don’t vote due to inconvenient voting system
By Frank Kibble. The General Election that has just been fought in New Zealand was a deeply captivating and forever-shifting contest. Bill English’s National Party were looking to hold on … Continue reading The 2017 New Zealand General Election: A Digital Review
The Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA) has called on the UK Government to undertake a “full examination of the benefits of and issues presented by electronic forms of counting” and … Continue reading Electoral Administrators tell Government to explore electronic counting
The move towards online voter registration has “transformed” access to elections in Great Britain and should be implemented in Northern Ireland “as soon as possible” according to the Electoral Commission. … Continue reading Electoral Commission: Online voter registration has “transformed” access to elections
By Areeq Chowdhury. The 2017 snap general election was called to bring about a “strong and stable” government but as we know, this did not quite go to plan with … Continue reading The sn-app general election?
Introducing an online voting option in elections is a “necessary” reform in order to prevent a breach of disabled voters’ human rights, according to a new report ‘Inclusive Voting’ published … Continue reading Online voting “necessary” to prevent breach of disabled voters’ human rights
Facebook has launched a new feature called ‘Perspectives’ which allows users to compare the policy stances of political parties ahead of the UK General Election. The feature appears as a … Continue reading Perspectives: Facebook launches voter advice feature for UK General Election
Digital democracy think-tank, WebRoots Democracy, and the Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC) are calling on all political parties to commit to introducing an online voting option in elections to … Continue reading WebRoots Democracy and RSBC join forces to call for online voting for vision-impaired voters
On the final day of the voter registration window for the 2017 UK General Election, 622,000 people registered to vote. Of those, 613,000 did so online, compared to just under … Continue reading 622,000 people register to vote on deadline day with 99% doing so online
The Conservative Party have pledged to “retain the traditional method of voting by pencil and paper” in their manifesto for the 2017 General Election as part of their plans to … Continue reading Conservatives pledge to “retain the traditional method of voting by pencil and paper”
A new survey undertaken by BMG Research has found that nearly half (49%) of people aged 18 to 34 in the UK support the introduction of online voting in elections … Continue reading BMG survey: Half of UK’s 18 to 34 year olds support the call for online voting
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