2022 at the ERS: Our year campaigning for changeEach year we write an Annual Report which looks back at our achievements across the last 12 months, and explains how our team have campaigned towards securing our vision for a democracy fit for the...Posted 24 Nov 2022
Voter ID that you can use in UK elections – and how to get itAll voters now need to bring a form of photographic identification to vote. The government has now confirmed in secondary legislation which photo IDs will be accepted, in a list which leaves few options for...Posted 22 Nov 2022
The 2022 Welsh Local Elections and the case for STVOn May 5th 2022 voters went to the polls in Wales to elect councillors for all 22 local authorities. These were not the only elections held that day; Northern Ireland held an Assembly election and...Posted 15 Nov 2022
Voter ID list gives few options for younger votersLong-awaited details of the government’s voter ID scheme have now finally been released including details of which IDs will be accepted at the polling station. With no alternatives for voters who turn up on the...Posted 11 Nov 2022
Don’t miss one of Scotland’s leading political experts in new annual lectureERS Scotland is hosting the inaugural State of Scottish Democracy lecture next week. The event takes place on Thursday 17th November, in Govan’s Pearce Institute, and will be addressed by Professor James Mitchell. The idea...Posted 11 Nov 2022
A wave of cities across the United States switch to fair voting systemsThis week’s big electoral story is America’s midterm elections and the failure of the predicted ‘Red Wave’ to materialise. However, an underreported story has been the high number of cities that accepted proposals to introduce...Posted 11 Nov 2022
How do elections work in the Australian states?Six months after choosing a new federal parliament, voters in the key Australian state of Victoria will be returning to the polling booth this Saturday (26th November), not just in hope of getting their hands...Posted 10 Nov 2022
Why does the Northern Ireland Assembly keep collapsing?In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement, also known as the Belfast Agreement, was reached by multi-party consensus to bring an end to the violence in Northern Ireland and establish the current political system. Unlike the...Posted 04 Nov 2022
We’re calling for an inquiry into failing voter ID implementationLong before the Elections Act was passed last year, we warned about the issues that implementing photographic voter ID requirements would cause. From ensuring access to the free form of ID was easy for the...Posted 04 Nov 2022
Life-time appointments to Lords should not be handed out as rewards for failureA seat in the House of Lords is a lifetime appointment to make our laws, not a gift to be handed out by a prime minister as they head out the door. Yet the prime...Posted 01 Nov 2022