In a statement to Parliament yesterday, Mark Harper (Minister for Constitutional Reform) announced that the Government will speed up the introduction of individual electoral registration by axing ...

Over the weekend, I wrote about how welcome the ancillary details are in the newly published Electoral Registration and Administration Bill. Those are the “and Administration” part of the Bill, but ...

Picture this. You are 19 years old and you manage to get down to the polling station on election day. Maybe you finally make up your mind about who to vote for as you walk in the door. But before you ...

A couple of weeks from now, a little-known deadline is set to expire. On July 2, individuals that collect and use personal data as “personal information controllers” or “personal information ...

The government has rejected the advice of its own elections watchdog and will close down existing electoral registers a year earlier than planned. The transition to a new individual voter registration ...

The government is planning to reform the way we register to vote, but what will the changes mean for future elections? <bold>What's in the Bill? </bold> The most important, and controversial element, ...