European referendum – the electoral timetable
See all the details of the deadlines for the 2016 European referendum, such as last day to apply for a postal vote. … Read the full post »
Read about what the regulator for elections and political finance in the UK, the Electoral Commission, has got up to. It was created in 2000 by the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act (PPERA).
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See all the details of the deadlines for the 2016 European referendum, such as last day to apply for a postal vote. … Read the full post »
“It is not possible to estimate the number of eligible electors who were removed from the registers.” – Electoral Commission. But that didn’t stop the media reporting stories as if they knew how many people had been removed. … Read the full post »
The regulator – the Electoral Commission – has consistently shown a striking lack of interest in the issue. … Read the full post »
On 20 February, the Prime Minister announced that the UK Government’s proposed date for the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union is 23 June 2016. … Read the full post »
Given how many times I’ve blogged about the move to individual electoral registration, I guess I should blog about the new electoral register figures and what they tell us. But… … Read the full post »
The Electoral Commission sent out the following message to returning officers this week. … Read the full post »
The Electoral Commission is now investigating the Conservatives over allegations the Tories fiddled their expense return in South Thanet by excluding hotel bills for staff and the like. … Read the full post »
In many ways it is bizarrely anachronistic that voters cannot go to a website, input their address and find out where their local polling station is. … Read the full post »
As predicted, the BNP’s disappearance from the official register of political parties has proved to be only temporary. … Read the full post »
Channel 4 News has obtained evidence of tens of thousands of pounds of spending by the Conservatives during key by-election campaigns which appear not to have been declared. … Read the full post »