watchdog urges peers to block plans to take 1.9m names off electoral roll /

Published at 2015-10-23 14:37:20

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Electoral Commission says people risk being disenfranchised if recent system of voter registration is brought in too soon The electoral watchdog has advised peers to block the governments plans to delete up to 1.9 million people from the voting register in December.
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head of a debate in the House of Lords next week, the Electoral Commission warned that there was a risk that people could be disenfranchised at next May’s elections because the government was trying to bring in its recent system too soon.
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Source: theguardian.com