Tag: Toby S James
All democrats should support the “Motor Voter” Amendments to the Wales Bill next week
In office, President Bill Clinton signed the ‘Motor Voter’ Act, which allowed eligible US citizens to register to vote in an expanded the number of locations and introduced new opportunities whereby people could apply to register to vote. A UK version of this Act has been proposed in the House of Lords as an amendment to the […]
Postal voting and electoral fraud: a reply to Richard Mawrey QC
Postal votes have long been a source of suspicion, with allegations of fraud seemingly never far away. But while recent allegations by Richard Marrey QC should be taken seriously, it is not in reality a particularly widespread problem, nor something which routinely effects the results of important elections. More serious, argues Toby S. James, is […]
Same-day electoral registration would increase voter engagement and improve British democracy
The number of eligible individuals opting to vote on polling day is in long-term decline. So too are levels of electoral registration, with one in five eligible voters not even appearing on the electoral register. To this end, the Labour Party has recently announced a policy to allow would-be voters to register on the day […]
Individual electoral registration still needs a lot of work, if it is not to be a car crash for British democracy
Most of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition’s original programme of constitutional reform has conspicuously failed to get implemented (notably AV, Westminster boundary changes and House of Lords reform). Yet, individual electoral registration (IER), making each voter register themselves instead of a ‘head of household’ doing it, has been pushed through and implementation is about to start. […]
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