Young people and the new voter registration system: will even fewer vote on May 7th?

Posted by Susie Holden on April 16, 2015 at 1:01pm in Community News, Info, Issues

The deadline to register to vote in the forthcoming General Election is almost upon us (20th April), and I'm worried about the potentially very low turnout among young people (though not in Scotland). I know that under the new voter registration system, it is up to each individual to get registered, whereas in the previous system, that was managed on a per household basis. Has anyone been aware of much debate about this recently? And if you know any young people who may not have registered, here are the links.

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Susie Holden April 17, 2015 at 11:15am

A good article in today's Independent, plus video:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/gener...

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