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Why?
Reports are saying there are more so far. We'll see if it has an impact.
'Huge increase' in voter registration, says campaign group
The Electoral Reform Society - a pressure group that wants a change in
voting system for the UK - has analysed voter registration data in the
period from the day the election was called (29 October) to midnight
yesterday.It says:
There have been 3,191,193 applications to register to vote in those 28 days, an average of 114,000 per day
That figure is 38% higher than the 2,315,893 applications to register in a similar period in the 2017 election, which equated to an average of 68,000 registrations per day
Of the applications made since the election was called in 2019, 2,125,064 applications (67% of the total) have been made by people
aged 34 or underDr Jess Garland, director of policy and research at the Electoral
Reform Society, says of the stats: “We’re seeing a major uplift in new
registrations compared to the last election, with large numbers of
young people signing up too - a traditionally under-registered
demographic."Just one caveat, an increase in applications is not firm evidence of
an increase in the number of people able to vote - previous elections
have seen voter registration applications from people who are already
registered or who are below the voting age.
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i strongly doubt that there are significantly more people signing up to vote than in any previous election cycle