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Tackling online harms to our democracy must be...

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

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Democracy and ‘deterrence’: How out-of-date campaign rules leave...

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

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

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

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Voters risk being locked out – unless this...

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

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Early voting doesn’t have to mean long queues

Two news stories stood out this week. As early voting...

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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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New Zealand MMP song

New Zealand’s MMP electoral system: how does it...

New Zealand actor Jack Buchanan explains how MMP works in...

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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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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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