The Reformer

Manifesto for Democracy: Education for the future

Education is key to ensuring that newly enfranchised voters understand the system they can now have a voice in. That...

Manifesto for democracy: A Stronger Senedd

The Senedd looks very different to when it was first conceived in 1999. Ongoing devolution has meant more powers are...

Tackling online harms to our democracy must be a priority 

Last week, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee criticised the government for its repeated delays...

Democracy and ‘deterrence’: How out-of-date campaign rules leave the door open to turnout suppression

Presidential elections tend to highlight the best and worst of US democracy. In 2016, for instance, the winner of the...

Parliament House

Does PR mean coalitions? As New Zealand shows – it’s all down to the voters

The New Zealand Labour party are celebrating a landslide win, with 49 percent of the vote and enough MPs to...

Voters risk being locked out – unless this crucial change is made

When the ‘virtual Parliament’ was launched at the end of April, the UK was witnessing around 5,000 new coronavirus cases...

Just 25 percent of attainers are registered

This simple change could help bring in the ‘missing millions’

Rather than putting up bureaucratic barriers to engaging with politics, we should be ensuring everyone can use their vote.

Over nine million are estimated to be missing from the register

Parties can back this simple change today to help bring in the ‘missing millions’

A cross-party group of peers are backing an amendment to improve the accuracy of the electoral register setting out new...

Guernsey

Are Guernsey about to hold the strangest election in the world? 

On 7 October, voters in Guernsey will head to the polls for what is likely to be the ‘strangest [election]...

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

Government must do more to ‘level up politics’ for women and minorities

Despite some gains in the last general election, women and minority groups remain highly under-represented in politics, according to a...

Newspapers

ERS in the Press – September 2020

As the government continues to implement new restrictions to fight the second wave of coronavirus, the cracks in Britain’s political...

There was just one proven case of personation fraud in 2019

Ministers just vowed to plough ahead with a ‘dangerous’ change to elections

The ERS and groups representing elderly voters and BME communities are warning that mandatory voter ID risks pulling up the...