Electoral Commission Articles

Demanding photo ID at polling stations discriminates against the poor and the young, argues Paul Wheeler While the nation gently snoozed off its post-Christmas excess the government thought that Boxing Day was the best time to announce major changes to the voting...

The priority of every Labour politician on television, radio and local media must be to make clear that the government has made a choice on tax credit cuts, that there is still time to change their minds, and that just a two year delay – elequently pointed out by...

This time last year we saw the most fundamental change in the process of electoral registration with the move from household registration. This moved registration from where a head of household was responsible for registering all those eligible to vote at that...

Today, the Electoral Commission has finally published a report on the state of the electoral register. Labour has warned for months now that around a million voters may have fallen off the register in 2014 leaving them unable to vote in the general election as the...