No, you can’t do that – and a very clever stunt at the Electoral Commission’s offices
Last week staff at the Electoral Commission walked in to find signs on their computers saying ‘You can’t use a PC today’. … 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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Last week staff at the Electoral Commission walked in to find signs on their computers saying ‘You can’t use a PC today’. … Read the full post »
Edition #59 of Liberal Democrat Newswire came out earlier in the week, looking at the party’s evolving tax and spend plans for the next Parliament, what new polling says about the party’s strategy, record fundraising by the Lib Dems and more. … Read the full post »
The Beer, Baccy and Crumpet party was told by the Electoral Commission its name could not appear on voting slips in May.
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The truth is that still, nobody really knows what’s happening, but with the number of new applications to be on the register so high every day it’s looking very likely that the register by May will be larger, not smaller. … Read the full post »
There is one super-simple reform which, at a stroke, would significantly help clean-up the influence of money on British politics. … Read the full post »
It’s another case of that stultifying conformity and me-too-ism of much of media and politics, where everyone is confined to a tiny island of half-knowledge. … Read the full post »
Shouldn’t there be more to political science than running regression analysis on other people’s datasets? … Read the full post »
In fairness to myself, there were two posts nine and a half months ago and then nothing until this week on the Electoral Commission’s “new” blog. … Read the full post »
Wisely the Electoral Commission proposes reforming the legal qualification that nobody understands. … Read the full post »
Staff in Labour’s Brewer’s Green headquarters are furious at the creation of Labour People, a private company offering political consultancy services that claims to have the backing of Iain McNicol, the party’s general secretary. … Read the full post »