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  • I have no idea but pool the Lib and Lab vote and they'd be well on their way....

    Of course gaining consensus on who to align behind would be difficult in the present climate.

  • This is a thing in US elections isn't it? They collect and bus people around to polling stations.

  • I have no idea. I'm a campaign noob. The people I'm doing it with are really pushing for availability on the 12th though, very keen to mobilise the vote, esp when a lot of the core is busy/tired/at work.

  • i strongly doubt that there are significantly more people signing up to vote than in any previous election cycle

  • The people I'm doing it with are really pushing for availability on the 12th though

    Taking "swing vote" literally?

  • This is a thing in US elections isn't it? They collect and bus people around to polling stations.

    This is a thing here.

    Pretty common for people with mobility or transportation issues to be bussed.

  • Goves latest tweet is toe curlingly cringe.

    https://twitter.com/michaelgove/status/1199304826468876288?s=20

  • I saw a screenshot of that and assumed it could only possibly be fake

  • It’s not!!

  • Have any overseas voters received their ballots yet?

  • Oops. Just seen a couple of people are waiting still.

  • The natural evolution from William Hague and the baseball cap...

  • 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 under

    Dr 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.

  • Johnson visits a hospital for a photoshoot. The walls are quickly painted, cleaners are sent from the wards to pick up leaves in the carpark, Johnson serves cold tea to a captive audience, no doctor in the entire hospital agrees to meet him, patient care suffers whilst he's there, then he slides in / out of a side door to avoid meeting unvetted people.

    Pretty depressing reading.

    https://twitter.com/SevenSeasSoBlue/status/1198959267019186178

  • Just because its an election perennial story.

    31 or 38% increase does sound a lot though, way more than can be explained by population increase

    is 67% of them being under 34yo that suprising since by definition 1st time eligible voters will be aged under 22?

  • Cider factory.

  • Cameron changed the method of getting young people, 16-18 year olds on the Electoral Register.
    Previously each household received a letter requesting a list of residents at the property.
    I think it was an offence not to complete the form.
    Cameron cancelled this method, assuming that the more young people slipped of the Electoral Register the better for the Tories.
    The obvious method to ensure teenagers are on the electoral register would be to require schools, colleges, universities register their students.

  • It was certainly (and still is) technically an offence not to be on the electoral register. I don't think that anyone has ever been prosecuted for it though.

    I thought that one of the responsibilities passed on to unis as part of the tuition fee deal was that they were to encourage students to get on the electoral roll. Note only encourage though.

  • Her reflection is Harrison Ford

  • I imagine Individual Voter Registration (IER) would have been a factor in Cameron's 2015 majority. I don't think it's a bad thing in itself, but the practical effect was that 800,000 people dropped off the register between 2014 and Janury 2016:

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/conservative-changes-to-voter-registration-leave-800000-off-election-rolls-a6845796.html

    Labour are concerned that the missing voters are primarily their supporters.

    As we know, voter fraud is a very minor issue that is constantly being played up by the Tories in order to suppress voters.

    This is what the Electoral Reform Society says about the way ahead:

    https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/campaigns/upgrading-our-democracy/voter-registration/

  • The irony about voting is the thing which makes your vote meaningless also makes voter fraud meaningless (at the scale ID laws would matter).

    But we should all vote. Or at least, spoil our ballots.

  • Received a letter to this effect to my current flat this year. Never had one before to anywhere I’ve lived previously that I know of

  • Andrew Neil/Corbyn interview is not going well.

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