• UK government rejects idea of a single website to check if you're registered to vote
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42417861[/url] [quote]The government has ditched the idea of setting up a website to allow people to check if they are registered to vote. Millions applied to vote in the run-up to the general election and EU referendum but most wasted their time because they were already registered. The only way to check is to contact your local council. Officials were swamped by duplicate applications and there were fears about a rise in "double voting" with people registered in two places. The Electoral Commission said urgent action was needed to deal with the problem and called for an online "look up" service to be set up, preferably as part of the existing online registration service, which has proved highly popular since it was launched in 2014. But the government has rejected the idea on cost grounds after carrying out a study.[/quote] This would really be useful. Registering to vote in the UK is extremely easy and takes <5 minutes on a nice sleek modern website, but if you want to check whether you're already registered, or register for a postal vote, you still have to phone your council and/or send a letter to them. I usually just re-register every time and let the council figure it out. Also they're not publishing the results of their study: [quote]Cabinet Office minister Chris Skidmore said he would not be publishing the results of the "online registration status checking survey". But he said: "The results of the assessment were that such a service is both impracticable given significant technical and security considerations and very expensive. "Indeed, as set out previously, the cost of such a service would far exceed the cost of processing duplicate applications."[/quote]
I wish states would do that here it would also help crack down on that ""illegal"" voting by people who may or may not be double registered. The problem i can see is that it should not have anything like ssns or addresses so generic names like john smith would be a problem
[QUOTE=Sableye;52992637]I wish states would do that here it would also help crack down on that ""illegal"" voting by people who may or may not be double registered. The problem i can see is that it should not have anything like ssns or addresses so generic names like john smith would be a problem[/QUOTE] I'm assuming you're from the US. [url]https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/[/url] At least some states have their own sites you can check as well
"Government which suffers from new voters not voting for them, doesn't want to make it easier for new voters to not vote for them." I am not in the slightest bit surprised. Tory fucks.
[url]https://check.aec.gov.au[/url] If we can afford it, surely the UK can
[QUOTE=BF;52993199][url]https://check.aec.gov.au[/url] If we can afford it, surely the UK can[/QUOTE] Oh we can. They just won't. Tories complaining about money all the time yet they can pull billions out when it suits them, abhorrent government we have.
If the money wont ultimately end up in the hands of the rich the Tories can't find it.
tories lost the right to complain about a lack of money when they bought 10 votes to secure their victory and fork out for brexit (a disaster made by their own hands)
[QUOTE=Jon27;52992688]"Government which suffers from new voters not voting for them, doesn't want to make it easier for new voters to not vote for them." I am not in the slightest bit surprised. Tory fucks.[/QUOTE] indeed this seems like straight up voter suppression
Bumping this thread because I've obtained the government's report through a freedom of information request. Here's the report and here's a video I made about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzcf62SucIc
Here in Finland, we don't have any kind of registration nonsense. I get a letter in the mail from the government telling me that as a citizen I have the right to vote, and it tells me all the locations I can vote at if I decide to vote early, and it also shows the location where I must go if I was too lazy to vote weeks before the voting, and instead vote on the day of. I show up, get my slip, go to a booth and write the number of who/what I'm voting for, go to an official, show ID, official prints out a paper, I sign it, it gets enclosed in an envelope with my vote and dropped into the box. Simple. Registration just sounds like "we don't want people to vote" to me.
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