Election deadline coming up: apply for new postal or proxy vote by 5pm Tuesday
5pm Tuesday 21 April: that’s the deadline for making a new postal or postal proxy vote application. … Read the full post »
Voting by proxy means appointing someone else to vote on your behalf because you aren’t able to make it in person to vote. It is usually an alternative to postal voting, whereby you still cast your own vote, but by post rather than having to turn out to a specific place at a particular time.
5pm Tuesday 21 April: that’s the deadline for making a new postal or postal proxy vote application. … Read the full post »
A row has broken out after a Green campaign group started handing out proxy voting forms already filled in with the details of Green Party supporters. … Read the full post »
Monday 20 April: that’s the deadline for electoral register applications from people who want to be able to vote in the general election. … Read the full post »
The Electoral Commission has issued a set of public information films warning voters about electoral fraud, which is a very welcome move give the high profile concerns over fraud in some places. … Read the full post »
One key piece of information at the moment is whether or not someone who is on the register has moved over to individual registration or not. … Read the full post »
Even the Electoral Commission’s own evidence shows that there is not a problem to which voter ID is the solution. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #34 is out, looking at the Liberal Democrat prospects for the May 2013 local elections. … Read the full post »
Here are the key legal dates for the May 2013 round of elections. … Read the full post »
I’ve written before about the motion I’m seconding at the Unlock Democracy AGM, trying to improve the organisation’s own internal democracy. … Read the full post »
In the spring and summer I blogged about how underwhelmed I was by the exceptionally tight campaigning restrictions for Unlock Democracy’s internal elections. … Read the full post »