{"id":571,"date":"2016-06-13T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.breslinpublicpolicy.com\/?p=571"},"modified":"2016-06-10T15:38:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T15:38:50","slug":"use-your-vote-supports-calls-for-automatic-voter-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breslinpublicpolicy.com\/news\/use-your-vote-supports-calls-for-automatic-voter-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Your Vote supports calls for automatic voter registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish National Party MP Owen Thompson has called on the UK government to introduce automatic registration for elections following problems with the voter registration website this week.<\/p>\n<p>Owen Thompson MP referred to the report \u201cMissing Millions\u201d in the chamber this afternoon, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Democratic Participation which presented tried and tested solutions to keep the register up-to-date all year round, and called on Matthew Hancock MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office, to introduce automatic registration.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting, Owen Thompson MP said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn many democracies around the world, automatic registration is used to avoid a last minute administrative collapse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoter engagement is vital for democracy to flourish \u2013 and we know from the way people got involved with the Scottish independence referendum that a high turnout and a high voter registration is incredibly energising to political debate and participation. I am urging the UK Government not to drag its feet any more on automatic registration \u2013 there cannot be any valid reason for them not to look seriously at it after this current fiasco.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Supporting the call, Tony Breslin, Founding Director of Use Your Vote, said \u201cOwen is right about this and politicians of all parties, and others of influence across the spectrum, should endorse his call; if democratic engagement and the right to be heard is a fundamental right, why the need to \u2018register\u2019 to secure it? We need to put 21st century thinking at the heart of our democracy and automatic voter registration should be part of doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commenting, Oliver Sidorczuk from Bite the Ballot said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOwen\u2019s spot on to call for automatic voter registration, as per the recommendations of the \u2018Missing Millions\u2019 report. We know it works in other countries, we know it\u2019s cheaper, and we know it\u2019s ultimately about removing a key barrier to democratic participation. The Cabinet Office must now realise the mood of the country is changing. It\u2019s time to make voting a one-step process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the issues with Voter Registration the deadline for registering has been extended to until 23:59 Thursday 9th June, if you need to register you can do by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.uk\/register-to-vote\" target=\"_blank\">www.gov.uk\/register-to-vote<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midlothianview.com\/news\/uk-government-should-introduce-automatic-voter-registration\/\" target=\"_blank\">Midlothian View.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the EU referendum looms, Breslin Public Policy&#8217;s recently launched Use Your Vote campaign joins the growing support for automatic voter registration which is being led in Scotland by SNP MP Owen Thompson, with the support of online news board Midlothian View, established and edited by Use Your Vote Scotland Director Phil Bowen, proprietor of Pigeon Penguin, web partners for both the campaign and Breslin Public Policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - 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