The Reformer

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...

Parliament House

Early voting doesn’t have to mean long queues

Two news stories stood out this week. As early voting opened in some US states, images of voters queuing all...

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.

New Zealand MMP song

New Zealand’s MMP electoral system: how does it work?

New Zealand actor Jack Buchanan explains how MMP works in this music video created in partnership with the New Zealand...

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...

Conservative, Labour, SNP, Green and Lib Dem figures back our calls

Cross-party figures unite to call for transparency in ‘Wild West’ online campaigning

Political figures across the spectrum have backed our calls for reform of Britain’s ‘wild west’ election campaign rules following the...

Paying the price of First Past the Post – Towns Fund millions spent on marginal seats

There is no better way of finding out which voters matter under Westminster’s warped electoral system than looking at where...

Democracy in the Dark Preview

ERS reveals the scale of secretive online campaigning during last year’s election

Democracy in the Dark – our new report commissioned from two of the UK’s leading election finance academics reveals a...