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There are millions more renters, let’s give them a voice
Pete Jefferys, Shelter Policy Team In the Shelter policy team we spend a lot of time thinking about how to get renting up the political agenda. Four in ten of the people who come to Shelter for...
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The price of failure on PCC elections
On 15 November 2012 English and Welsh voters went to the polls to elect the first Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs). As we anticipated the election saw the lowest turnout inpeacetime history with...
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It’s Official! Everyone (apart from the Home Office) who has looked at the elections for police and crime commissioners (PCCs) say they should never be allowed to happen that way again. At the...
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Our ‘Flatlining Democracy’ – no palliatives please
Last night Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Angela Eagle addressed the Hansard Society on political engagement in Britain. Given the problems we face her speech makes welcome reading. Eagle spoke...
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Millions still at risk of falling off the electoral register
The government seems to have recognised the risk – one which we have consistently warned about – that millions of people may fall off the electoral register and become effectively disenfranchised as a...
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Let's be careful with voter ID
The Electoral Commissiontoday recommended that voters should be required to produce ID at the polling station as a measure to tackle electoral fraud. While it is of course vital to prevent fraud, at a...
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Democracy: the year ahead
There will be elections aplenty in 2014 at home and abroad: the last locals ahead of the 2015 General Election, to be held on the same day as polls for the European Parliament; Scotland’s referendum on...
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Time to Bite the Ballot
Today is the first ever National Voter Registration Day– a fantastic initiative by Bite the Ballot to get as many (particularly younger) people on the electoral register as possible. A large number of...
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Friends, Romanians, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Votes...
Turnout has been in the news once again, with a report from the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee advocating bank holidays on election days, votes at 16 and other structural changes to...
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Cash for registration?
The Cabinet Office last week announced a ‘further’ £9.8m of spending to promote voter registration. Some £6.8m is being allocated to local authorities, depending on their levels of under-registration....
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