Up to two million people risk dropping off the electoral register on 1 December

Last Updated: November 17, 2015By

On 1 December, if the Government gets its way, up to 2 million people will drop off the electoral register – in what will be the single biggest act of disenfranchisement in our history.The voter drop off is happening because of the Government’s decision to bring forward the full introduction of Individual Electoral Registration (IER) by 12 months to 1 December 2015.

Designed to reduce fraud and make the electoral register more accurate, anyone whose details have not been matched with HMRC and DWP records has been asked to re-register, but this time by providing their National Insurance number.

Councils have been done their best to re-register the five million people whose data could not be matched but it is the 1.9 million who have not yet re-registered who will now drop off in December.

New voters were also required to register individually, thus ending the system whereby one person in the household could register everyone else.

The near 2 million lost voters will be added to the 8 million eligible adults the Electoral Commission already believes are not on the electoral register. This equates to 19% of eligible adults not having the vote.

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Source: Up to 2 million people risk dropping off the electoral register on 1 December | Blog | Class: Centre for Labour and Social Studies

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4 Comments

  1. casalealex November 17, 2015 at 11:52 am - Reply

    Nothing to do with ‘dropping off’. It is the government’s plan to ‘nudge’ them off – their favourite word of the moment!

  2. Joan Edington November 17, 2015 at 11:58 am - Reply

    Of course we all know why this is happening. The new voters would not be Tory die-hards.

  3. Dez November 17, 2015 at 1:01 pm - Reply

    The more demanding the detail the less inclined voters will be to respond individually as opposed to the main ratepayer being held responsible for declaring the occupants. With local authorities being screwed further their interests will be zilch in chasing accuracy etc. So neat little covert plan in eroding democracy and influencing the bias in the voting process…..

  4. wildswimmerpete November 17, 2015 at 8:41 pm - Reply

    I’ve just done mine online to confirm that I won’t by “nudged” by Cameron to lose my vote, and this is yet another old fart who won’t ever vote Tory.

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