People were turned away from polling stations last week and they’ve told us whyOne of the big stories of May’s English local elections is not the results of the vote, but about the process of voting itself. For the first time, voters in England who headed to the...Posted 17 May 2023
Voter ID is a ‘gerrymandering scheme’ suggests Jacob Rees-MoggWe still don’t have the full picture of how many people were stripped of their right to vote in May’s local elections in England. We’ve long warned that this unnecessary policy would be a messy...Posted 16 May 2023
New rules see Mayors elected without majority supportCoverage of the local elections has been dominated by punditry over what the results mean for next year’s general election and the government’s controversial voter ID scheme, which saw countless people turned away from casting...Posted 10 May 2023
90% of seats on less than half the vote? That’s England’s local democracyWith nearly all the 2023 local election results declared, the First Past the Post system used across England has once again failed to reflect the views of voters in who runs their local community. Rather...Posted 09 May 2023
Voters across England will be turned away from polling stations today for lacking IDMay 4th 2023 was a historic local election for all the wrong reasons. For the first time, voters in England were turned away from polling stations as they lacked the right forms of ID. The...Posted 04 May 2023
Elections Cancelled: 90,000 denied any say in local electionsFollowing the publication of candidate notices for the May 2023 English local elections, it is clear that the scourge of uncontested and guaranteed seats will once again limit the democratic choices of hundreds of thousands...Posted 02 May 2023
Nearly 119,000 signatures handed to No 10 calling for voter ID u-turnCampaign groups handed in nearly 119,000 petition signatures to 10 Downing Street this week, calling for the government to think again, and scrap its dangerous plans for voter ID. The petition delivery took place as...Posted 21 Apr 2023
Local Elections: Frequently Asked QuestionsIn the run-up to the May local elections we often hear the same questions being asked by concerned voters. We thought we’d collect together the answers for some of the most frequently asked questions, we...Posted 17 Apr 2023
With just weeks to go awareness of voter ID remains worryingly lowWith less than six weeks to May’s local elections, the problems with the government’s rollout of their disastrous rollout of voter ID are clearer than ever. As we race towards polling day concerns about the...Posted 28 Mar 2023
New polling shows 61% oppose Boris Johnson’s resignation peeragesOur new polling has found that just one in 14 people (7%) support Boris Johnson stuffing more peers into the already bulging House of Lords with his resignation honours list. Polling of 2,050 people, conducted...Posted 28 Mar 2023