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Manifesto for Democracy: Education for the future

Education is key to ensuring that newly enfranchised voters understand...

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Manifesto for democracy: A Stronger Senedd

The Senedd looks very different to when it was first...

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The white paper makes scant references to online harms to our democracy

Tackling online harms to our democracy must be...

Last week, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and...

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Elections should be about winning voters, not make them give up on voting entirely

Democracy and ‘deterrence’: How out-of-date campaign rules leave...

Presidential elections tend to highlight the best and worst of...

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With PR if people want a single-party majority they get one

Does PR mean coalitions? As New Zealand shows...

The New Zealand Labour party are celebrating a landslide win,...

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With different restrictions around the UK, refusing remote participation hits some voters harder than others

Voters risk being locked out – unless this...

When the ‘virtual Parliament’ was launched at the end of...

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Just 25 percent of attainers are registered

This simple change could help bring in the...

Rather than putting up bureaucratic barriers to engaging with politics,...

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Over nine million are estimated to be missing from the register

Parties can back this simple change today to...

A cross-party group of peers are backing an amendment to...

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the election is likely to be a difficult experience for voters

Are Guernsey about to hold the strangest election in...

On 7 October, voters in Guernsey will head to the...

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It’s time for parties to open up about who is running for office

Government must do more to ‘level up politics’...

Despite some gains in the last general election, women and...

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ERS in the Press – September 2020

As the government continues to implement new restrictions to fight...

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There was just one proven case of personation fraud in 2019

Ministers just vowed to plough ahead with a...

The ERS and groups representing elderly voters and BME communities...

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