Archive for jenny watson
EXCITING VIDEO! Jenny Watson, Electoral Commission Chair
Here’s the new film from the Electoral Commission. It’s exciting. Also on YouTube.
Electoral Commission imposes voting limits to avoid repeat of polling station queues
A limit on the maximum number of people eligible to vote at a polling station has been imposed by the Electoral Commission under the powers given to its Chief Executive, Jenny Watson, to run the AV referendum in May. Under the law for referendums, Jenny Watson is the Chief Counting Officer and thereby able to [...]
Electoral Commission’s verdict: electoral fraud is not a serious problem
The Electoral Commission has published the results of its third survey of reports of electoral fraud and other malpractice, this time covering the 2010 general and local elections and for the first time including data for every police force.
Good news as Electoral Commission decides to preserve local donation records
The Electoral Commission is plugging a gap in the record of political donations following a decision to change its policy on retaining copies of constituency candidate expense returns.
Weekend voting gets another push from Jenny Watson
In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Electoral Commission chair Jenny Watson repeated the Commission’s interest in seeing a switch to weekend voting:
Flexible election schedules, including opening the polls for entire weekends, should be considered to make the system more relevant to 21st century life, she said.
These comments echo strong public support for weekend voting, [...]
Labour Party under fire for breaking Code of Conduct on postal voting
The Electoral Commission's report into the November 2009 Parliamentary by-election in Glasgow North East has condemned the Labour Party for breaking the Code of Conduct on postal voting, saying the party repeatedly failed to process postal vote forms promptly.
Jenny Watson responds to criticism of her speech
On Tuesday evening I blogged about the speech given by Jenny Watson, Chair of the Electoral Commission, criticising her comments about turnout in British elections:
I was rather surprised at the introduction to your speech earlier today to the UCL Constitution Unit where you painted what seems to me a very misleading picture of what is [...]
The Electoral Commission gets it wrong on turnout
Here’s the email I’ve sent to Jenny Watson, Chair of the Electoral Commission:
Dear Jenny Watson,
I was rather surprised at the introduction to your speech earlier today to the UCL Constitution Unit where you painted what seems to me a very misleading picture of what is happening to turnout in British elections.
I appreciate that is a [...]
