The Reformer

Local Elections: Your Questions Answered

Local Elections: Frequently Asked Questions

In the run-up to the May local elections we often hear the same questions being asked by concerned voters. We...

voter ID means that 2068745 UK citizens could be turned away from polling stations

With just weeks to go awareness of voter ID remains worryingly low

With less than six weeks to May’s local elections, the problems with the government’s rollout of their disastrous rollout of...

Just 7% support Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list

New polling shows 61% oppose Boris Johnson’s resignation peerages

Our new polling has found that just one in 14 people (7%) support Boris Johnson stuffing more peers into the...

Every major party uses something like the Alternative Vote to elect their leader

Why do so many parties use transferable voting for their leadership elections?

The 27th of March sees the announcement of the results of the SNP leadership election. As we wrote a few...

Men make up around 72 per cent of peers

How we could make the House of Lords gender equal overnight

It is a quiet scandal that 105 years after women first won the vote they are still grossly under-represented in...

Making it harder for people to vote is an expensive business

Why will the government’s voter ID scheme cost us up to £180,000,000 a decade?

Making it harder for people to vote is an expensive business. The government’s impact assessment of the Elections Act suggested...

Postbox

Will I need photo ID to get a postal vote?

Slowly, the country is waking up to the fact that the government have changed the rules for who can vote....

We have the opportunity to encourage first-time voter participation

Welcome to Your Vote Week – Raising young people’s political awareness

This week is Welcome to Your Vote Week, a campaign by the Electoral Commission to spark campaigners across the UK...

We tell ministers- Dont risk queues and chaos at the polls in May

Government plans heading for trouble as just 10,000 people apply for government-issued voter ID

Evidence is building that the Government’s flagship voter ID policy is heading for failure and election day chaos in May...

ERS Cymru has long called for automatic voter registration

We told the Welsh Government our suggestions for how to remove barriers to voting

Since elections were devolved to Wales in the Wales Act 2017 there have been a lot of changes for Welsh...

The government has decided to go with the strictest rules every time

All the ways the government decided not to make their voter ID rules fairer

This May, millions of people will be asked to bring photo ID to the polling station for the first time....

To do: Launch voter ID website

£5.6 million to promote voter ID website that wasn’t live yet

We told the government that voter ID was a costly distraction. First, it was £55m for new A4 polling cards...