Weekend voting: still on the super-slow burner
New Parliamentary report gives a very gently nudge forward to weekend voting. … Read the full post »
Jenny Watson
Jenny Watson was Chief Executive of the Electoral Commission, the independent elections regulator in Britain, 2009-2016.
Electoral Commission apologises for controversial ballot paper decision
The Electoral Commission has been forced to make an embarrassing apology after allowing an extremist party to use a slogan featuring murdered soldier Lee Rigby. … Read the full post »
EXCITING VIDEO! Jenny Watson, Electoral Commission Chair
Here’s the new film from the Electoral Commission. It’s exciting. … Read the full post »
Overnight counting, electoral fraud and the running of elections: a bounty of Electoral Commission reports
The last few days have been busy ones for the Electoral Commission, with most of the headlines caught by their report into when election counts should take place (overnight or the next day). … Read the full post »
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. … Read the full post »
Weekend voting: not ruled in, not ruled out
As part of Parliament’s deliberations over the Fixed-term Parliaments Bill, this week the House of Lords debated the possibility of moving to weekend voting. … Read the full post »
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. … Read the full post »
The two electoral tests the Coalition government should run
If it is serious about wanting to see higher turnout in elections, the government should trial weekend voting and increasing the number of polling stations so people have less far to travel to vote. … Read the full post »
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. … Read the full post »
Weekend voting gets another push from Jenny Watson
In an interview with The Guardian, Electoral Commission chair Jenny Watson repeated the Commission’s interest in seeing a switch to weekend voting. … Read the full post »