In a statement to Parliament yesterday, Mark Harper (Minister for Constitutional Reform) announced that the Government will speed up the introduction of individual electoral registration by axing ...

Over the weekend, I wrote about how welcome the ancillary details are in the newly published Electoral Registration and Administration Bill. Those are the “and Administration” part of the Bill, but ...

A couple of weeks from now, a little-known deadline is set to expire. On July 2, individuals that collect and use personal data as “personal information controllers” or “personal information ...

Picture this. You are 19 years old and you manage to get down to the polling station on election day. Maybe you finally make up your mind about who to vote for as you walk in the door. But before you ...

The government is planning to reform the way we register to vote, but what will the changes mean for future elections? <bold>What's in the Bill? </bold> The most important, and controversial element, ...

The government plans to speed up the introduction of compulsory individual voter registration in Britain. Currently the head of a household is asked to list eligible voters and does not have to ...

The most important, and controversial element, of the bill is a move to individual voter registration. There are other measures which the government hopes will make voter registration easier in the ...